title: django-rest-framework: How Do I Serialize a Field That Already Contains JSON?
body: <p>I am pretty new to the django-rest-framework, so could use some help.</p>
  
  <p>I have an object with a TextField that is a string containing JSON.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using django-rest-framework to serialize the whole object as JSON. However, this one string that is already JSON gets serialized as an encoded string containing the JSON rather than the JSON itself.</p>
  
  <p>How can I tell the serializer to send this field as-is rather than trying to transform this string to JSON? Is there some sort of "ignore" decorator or override I can use? Or can I pre-parse this JSON before serializing?</p>
  
  <p>This is the difference between having:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"data": data}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"data": "data"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The latter being more of a nuisance to use on the client side...</p>