A Game of JSON

Last updated April 20, 2018

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Code

I just found this cool dataset that contains characters and other entities from the Game of Thrones series of books. I thought it would be interesting to play with the data set and show how to read in JSON using the Cheshire library.

Code is available: lispcast/a-game-of-json

You can checkout the code in your local repo with this command:

$CMD git clone https://github.com/lispcast/a-game-of-json.git
$CMD cd a-game-of-json

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