{"date":"January 4","id":"01-04","intro":["A fisherman, so the story goes, once caught a flounder that spoke, begging to be released. This was granted, whereupon the fisherman’s wife demanded that it grant her one miracle after another, until even the flounder was disgusted."],"minutes":15,"readings":[{"author":"Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm","end":90,"start":83,"volume":17,"work":"Fairy Tales"}],"slug":"january-4","status":"proofread","title":"A Flounder Fish Story","url":"/harvard-classics/january-4/","words":3081}