[byrnedo]

Pulled my hair out about doing this all over the place when integrating with a node api, ended up writing https://github.com/byrnedo/pjson. Feels like this should be covered as a more first class thing in go.

[timewizard]

It is. That's what json.RawMessage is for. It's a shame the author didn't explore this more. It's a perfectly cromulent solution to this problem.