{"date":"January 7","id":"01-07","intro":["The Sultan had a habit of beheading each dawn his beautiful bride of the night before, until he encountered Scheherazade. Cleverly she saved her life a thousand and one mornings."],"minutes":21,"readings":[{"author":"","end":13,"start":5,"volume":16,"work":"The Thousand and One Nights"}],"slug":"january-7","status":"proofread","title":"If He Yawned, She Lost Her Head!","url":"/harvard-classics/january-7/","words":4223}