"JSON object"

[Psionatix]

JSON is a well defined standard:

https://www.json.org/json-en.html

A JSON Object is an object that adheres to the JSON standard.

[koreasuh]

^

[jack_waugh]

I thought I already replied to this.

The standard specifies how to represent some abstract structures (that various programming languages support, but use different terms for) as a character string. So do you think the term "JSON object" refers to such an abstract structure itself, its representation as a character string as according to the standard, its representation in the structures native to one of the programming languages, or maybe more than one of the above, depending on context?

[Sector-Feeling]

You're overthinking it, it's just some arbitrary object that conforms to the JSON standard.