On Thursday, 10 May 2018 at 15:01:57 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: > You'll need to unescape them (which is pretty easy, a simple > replacement here). > > For reference, this is invalid json[0]: > > ``` > { > "1 > 2 > 3 " > } > ``` > > [0] https://jsonlint.com/ So I see the answer is that I don't understand json. A search reveals that this is a common mistake.