Added a more info link and extra explanation

Added link to json.org
Included information about using JSON text as data.
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Michael Neth 2015-10-15 15:35:13 -05:00
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File extension for JSON files is ".json" and the MIME type for JSON text is "application/json".
Many programming languages have support for serializing (encoding) and unserializing (decoding) JSON data into native data structures. Javascript has implicit support for manipulating JSON text as data.
More information can be found at http://www.json.org/
JSON is built on two structures:
* A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array.
* An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence.
An object with various name/value pairs.
```json
{
"key": "value",