title: Mongodb - Mongoimport error invalid character
body: <p>I tried to import a simple json file using mongoimport and i get the following error </p>
  
  <pre><code>PER-MacBook-Pro:/AJ$ mongoimport --db test --collection samplePM --file /users/AJ/Documents/Development/ETLwork/Dummydata/Penguin_Players.json
  2015-06-16T09:53:57.291-0400    connected to: localhost
  2015-06-16T09:53:57.293-0400    Failed: error processing document #1: invalid character '\\' looking for beginning of object key string
  2015-06-16T09:53:57.293-0400    imported 0 documents
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Sample json file is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>      {  
           "position":"Right Wing",
           "id":8465166,
           "weight":200,
           "height":"6' 0\"",
           "imageUrl":"http://1.cdn.nhle.com/photos/mugs/8465166.jpg",
           "birthplace":"Seria, BRN",
           "age":37,
           "name":"Craig Adams",
           "birthdate":"April 26, 1977",
           "number":27
        },
        {  
           "position":"Right Wing",
           "id":8475761,
           "weight":195,
           "height":"6' 2\"",
           "imageUrl":"http://1.cdn.nhle.com/photos/mugs/8475761.jpg",
           "birthplace":"Gardena, CA, USA",
           "age":23,
           "name":"Beau Bennett",
           "birthdate":"November 27, 1991",
           "number":19
        }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I doing something wrong here?</p>