I am so sorry if the other promise threads have answered this but when looking at some of them I am just not getting the answer to solve my issue. I have three json files that I want to grab, parse and manually merge. The problem is I am getting stuck in promise jail. Let me show you some of the code from my angularjs controller.

```
$scope.tests = [];

$scope.tests = $http.get('results/testResults.json').then(function(res) {
  return res;
});

console.dir($scope.tests);

```

From the console.dir I am getting a promise but what I was hoping for was the data from the res variable. There has to be some way to get that data out. Is there no way to get that data out of the promise to a global variable so other promises of functions can use this data? Thanks