title: Can JSON string contain greater than and less than signs?
body: <p>I have a JSON string that contains HTML, so it includes the greater than and less characters. Looks something like this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>  {
      "parameters": [{
      "name": "html",
      "value": "&lt;tr&gt;  &lt;td align=\"left\"&gt;Hello Joe, what do you know? &lt;td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;"
     }]
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2151956/can-a-json-string-contain-html-tags-with-it">This post</a> seems to indicate that such JSON is valid.</p>
  
  <p>But <a href="https://jsonlint.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JsonLint</a> says it is invalid.</p>
  
  <p>Who is correct? </p>
  
  <p>I am also sending this JSON as a payload to an API which is choking on it. Which makes me also think there is something wrong with it.</p>