{"date":"January 12","id":"01-12","intro":["A Turkish sultan, relates Burke, when shown a picture of the beheaded John the Baptist, praised many things, but pointed out one gruesome defect. Did this observation show the sultan to be an inferior judge of art?"],"minutes":32,"readings":[{"author":"Edmund Burke","end":26,"start":11,"volume":24,"work":"On Taste"}],"slug":"january-12","status":"proofread","title":"What Is Good Taste?","url":"/harvard-classics/january-12/","words":6351}