{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Captives","description":"Two stories from people who found themselves in situations they didn't choose and had to figure out what to do from inside them. Guest-hosted by the captivating Cyndi Freeman.\n\n\n\n(Content note: references to torture)\n\nSofia Javed is a Pakistani-American interpreter hired to work in Uzbek and Russian at Guantanamo Bay, where she is ordered not to sympathize with detainees and then immediately put to the test. What starts as a potential crisis in a cellblock turns on a single, surprisingly mundane demand.\n\n\n\n(Content note: physical abuse, domestic violence)\n\nHeather Minter grew up in an evangelical fundamentalist family that uprooted itself for the mission field in Papua New Guinea, leaving her and her brother in a boarding school dorm run by a cruel and volatile house father. The faith that held her together through childhood eventually came apart in college, and what filled the void turned out to be its own kind of trap.\n\nLeave your reactions and find episode details and music credi...","author_name":"Risk! Storytelling Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/1143584-risk-storytelling-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/28011805/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}