{"podcast":{"title":"Vital Voices","slug":"vital-voices-6695622","podcast_index_feed_id":6695622,"rss_url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ea7e13e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2Fb9%2Fb0cb2ceb4ecd9367b9decfa6ff82%2Fwets-vital-voices-graphic-3000x3000.jpg","author":"Fred Sauceman (895wets@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Vital Voices features interviews with a wide variety of people talking about the subjects they are most passionate about in life.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T14:17:29.874503+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622"},"episode":{"title":"Feeding Southwest Virginia","slug":"feeding-southwest-virginia","published_at":"2026-04-30T04:50:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/feeding-southwest-virginia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622","url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/2026-04-30/rachel-garnett","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s374/audio/2026/04/vitalvoicespodcastepisode135.mp3","summary":"In this edition of “Vital Voices,” we examine the problem of hunger in Appalachia and what one organization is doing about it. Feeding Southwest Virginia is marking 45 years of service to a region where one child in every five is facing hunger. Our guest is Rachel Garnett with Feeding Southwest Virginia.","meta_description":"In this edition of “Vital Voices,” we examine the problem of hunger in Appalachia and what one organization is doing about it. Feeding Southwest Virginia…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1079,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/vital-voices-6695622/episodes/feeding-southwest-virginia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/feeding-southwest-virginia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}