{"date":"September 10","id":"09-10","intro":["One of America’s famous New Englanders, Oliver Wendell Holmes, devoted his life principally to medicine. His name, however, was made famous through his poem, “Old Ironsides,” by which he saved America’s most famous battleship from destruction when her fighting days were ended."],"minutes":6,"readings":[{"author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","end":1370,"start":1365,"volume":42,"work":"Poems"}],"slug":"september-10","status":"proofread","title":"Famous Poet-Physician","url":"/harvard-classics/september-10/","words":1103}