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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def from_json(self, data, deref=False):
 """Decode the string from JSON to return the original object (if `deref` is true. Uses the `json.loads` function with `self.decode` as object_hook. :param data: JSON encoded string. :type data: str :param deref: Whether to decode records that gave `ref=True` at encoding. :type deref: bool"""

        return self.deep_decode(json.loads(data), deref)