title: Deserialize twitter JSON with JSON.NET in C# to fetch hashtags
body: <p>Maybe I am repeating this question but I am trying this out for the first time and I can't find anything exactly like my situation..<br> <br>I am coding in C# and using JSON.NET to deserialize a json. The json file is coming from twitter as a response to this GET request:<br>
  <a href="https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json?include_entities=true" rel="nofollow">https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json?include_entities=true</a><br>
  <br>The json is a list of 20 latest tweets (json objects) from a given user's twitter timeline and the format of a single json object is like this:<br></p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "created_at": "Thu Sep 20 10:25:39 +0000 2012",
  "id": 248729631476314100,
  "id_str": "248729631476314112",
  "text": "Ask the experts and learn what's new with v.2.2 at  at #MongoDBPune (http://t.co/o5BA7zd6) and #MongoDBBangalore (http://t.co/7q3E2MBq)",
  "source": "&lt;a href=\"http://www.socialrithmic.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"&gt;Socialrithmic&lt;/a&gt;",
  "truncated": false,
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "user": {
    "id": 18080585,
    "id_str": "18080585",
    "name": "mongodb",
    "screen_name": "MongoDB",
    "location": "",
    "url": "http://mongodb.org/",
    "description": "High-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented  database   | www.facebook.com/MongoDB",
    "protected": false,
    "followers_count": 24999,
    "friends_count": 16,
    "listed_count": 1582,
    "created_at": "Fri Dec 12 17:21:18 +0000 2008",
    "favourites_count": 6,
    "utc_offset": -18000,
    "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)",
    "geo_enabled": true,
    "verified": false,
    "statuses_count": 1669,
    "lang": "en",
    "contributors_enabled": false,
    "is_translator": false,
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    "profile_link_color": "43B02A",
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    "following": true,
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  "geo": null,
  "coordinates": null,
  "place": null,
  "contributors": null,
  "retweet_count": 1,
  "entities": {
    "hashtags": [
      {
        "text": "MongoDBPune",
        "indices": [
          55,
          67
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "MongoDBBangalore",
        "indices": [
          95,
          112
        ]
      }
    ],
    "urls": [
      {
        "url": "http://t.co/o5BA7zd6",
        "expanded_url": "http://soc.ai/ZV",
        "display_url": "soc.ai/ZV",
        "indices": [
          69,
          89
        ]
      },
      {
        "url": "http://t.co/7q3E2MBq",
        "expanded_url": "http://soc.ai/ZW",
        "display_url": "soc.ai/ZW",
        "indices": [
          114,
          134
        ]
      }
    ],
    "user_mentions": []
  },
  "favorited": false,
  "retweeted": false,
  "possibly_sensitive": false
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>I use this code to get the (deserialized) list:<br></p>
  
  <pre><code>List&lt;JsonObject&gt; list = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject&lt;List&lt;JsonObject&gt;&gt;(response);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where 'response' holds my json.When I inserted a breakpoint and observed the json objects inside 'list', I found this:<br></p>
  
  <p>{
    "created_at": "Thu Sep 20 10:25:39 +0000 2012",
    "id": 248729631476314100,
    "id_str": "248729631476314112",
    "text": "Ask the experts and learn what's new with v.2.2 at  at #MongoDBPune (http://t.co/o5BA7zd6) and #MongoDBBangalore (http://t.co/7q3E2MBq)",
    "source": "Socialrithmic",
    "truncated": false,
    "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
    "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
    "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
    "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
    "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
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    "possibly_sensitive": false
  }</p>
  
  <p>I intend to collect ALL the hashtags from all the 20 json objects..So essentially I need to <em>navigate inside</em> entities to hashtags to text. But as seen above, the deserialization is only partial. It is not deserializing any nested stuff.
  <br><br>How do I fix this? Please help!</p>