title: IE7 not digesting JSON: "parse error"
body: <p>While trying to GET a JSON, my callback function is NOT firing.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.ajax({
      type:"GET",
      dataType:'json',
      url: myLocalURL,
      data: myData,
      success: function(returned_data) { 
          alert('success');
      }
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The strangest part of this is that:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>my JSON(s) validates on JSONlint</li>
  <li>this ONLY fails on IE7...it works in Safari, Chrome, and all versions of Firefox, (and even in IE8).  If I use 'error', then it reports "parseError"...even though it validates!  </li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Is there anything that I'm missing?  Does IE7 not process certain characters, data structures (my data doesn't have anything non-alphanumeric, but it DOES have nested JSONs)? I have used tons of other AJAX calls that all work (even in IE7), but with the exception of THIS call.</p>
  
  <p>An example data return here is: (this is a structurally-complete example, meaning it is only missing a few second-tier fields, but follows this exact hierarchy)</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"question":{
               "question_id":"19",
               "question_text":"testing",
               "other_crap":"none"
              },
    "timestamp":{
                "response":"answer",
                "response_text":"the text here"
                }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am completely at a loss.  Hopefully someone has some insight into what's going on...thank you!</p>
  
  <p><b>EDIT</b>
  Here's a copy of the SIMPLEST case of dummy data that I'm using...it still doesn't work in IE7.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "question":{
           "question_id":"20",
           "question_text":"testing :",
           "adverse_party":"none",
           "juris":"California",
           "recipients":"Carl Chan"
           }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am starting to doubt that it is a JSON issue...but I have NO idea what else it could be.  Here are some other resources that I've found that could be the cause, but they don't seem to work either:
  <a href="http://firelitdesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/jquerys-getjson.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://firelitdesign.blogspot.com/2009/07/jquerys-getjson.html</a> (Django uses Unicode by default, so I don't think this is causing it)</p>
  
  <p>Anybody have any other ideas?</p>