{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcurrentaffairs.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fwater-8MpGkZhs","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"WATER ","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a8e3828a-375e-49fd-973f-025700235a18/ddb430f0-40cf-4c6d-97bd-6ee26bf1a3eb/currentaffairs.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/940f7ae8-5062-48e1-b55d-17613edc49a6\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"WATER \" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Yesterday, Current Affairs published an article on the recent failure of two Michigan dams. In conjunction with this article, we thought we would release this bonus episode, originally aired in August 2019, in which Sparky and Vanessa interview the author, Varsha Venkatasubramanian (a.k.a. @varsha_venkat_). \n\nYou can read the article here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/06/dammed-and-damned\n\nThis episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.\n"}