title: JSON decoding: Unexpected token: StartArray
body: <p>I'm using <a href="http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json-net.aspx" rel="noreferrer">JSON.net</a> to decode a JSON string and I find this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Exception in 'Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException' en
    Newtonsoft.Json.dll</p>
    
    <p>Información adicional: Error reading string. Unexpected token:
    StartArray. Path 'mentions', line 3, position 3.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The JSON string is something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "mentions":
      [
          {
              "id":"1234",
              "alert_id":123,
              "title":"Bla bla bla",
              "url":"http:\/\/www.example.com\/",
              "unique_id":"123",
              "published_at":"2013-07-30T11:26:36.92131100+00:00",
              "created_at":"2013-07-30T11:27:08.0+00:00",
              "updated_at":"2013-07-30T11:27:09.0+00:00",
              "favorite":false,
              "trashed":false,
              "trashed_set_by_user":false,
              "read":false,
              "tone":0,
              "tone_score":0.14732,
              "relevance_score":1,
              "source_type":"forums",
              "source_name":"xxx",
              "source_url":"http:\/\/example.com\/",
              "language_code":"es",
              "tasks":[],
              "logs":[],
              "children":[],
              "picture_url":"https:\/\/example.com\/example.jpg"
          },
          {
              "id":"1235",
              "alert_id":123,
              "title":"Bla bla bla",
              "url":"http:\/\/www.example.com\/",
              "unique_id":"124",
              "published_at":"2013-07-30T11:26:36.92131100+00:00",
              "created_at":"2013-07-30T11:27:08.0+00:00",
              "updated_at":"2013-07-30T11:27:09.0+00:00",
              "favorite":false,
              "trashed":false,
              "trashed_set_by_user":false,
              "read":false,
              "tone":0,
              "tone_score":0.14732,
              "relevance_score":1,
              "source_type":"forums",
              "source_name":"xxx",
              "source_url":"http:\/\/example.com\/",
              "language_code":"es",
              "tasks":[],
              "logs":[],
              "children":[],
              "picture_url":"https:\/\/example.com\/example.jpg"
          }
      ],
  "recently_reenabled":false
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and looks like the problem is in third line where the '[' starts the array of mentions, I've seen this error is more or less common but didn't find a solution.</p>
  
  <p>This is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    Dim result As New Dictionary(Of String, String)
      Dim serializer As New System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer
      Dim jsonString As String
  
      jsonString = txtJSON.Text
  
      result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of Dictionary(Of String, String))(jsonString)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Help?</p>