I can't figure out why this is not valid JSON after testing it with jsonlint.com. It's just an array of objects and I don't see anything missing or out of place.
[
{
“rel”: “self”,
"href": "http://ourdomain/persons",
"name": {
"last": "best"
}
},
{
“rel”: “self”,
"href": "http://ourdomain/persons",
"name": {
"last": "bet"
}
},
{
“rel”: “self”,
"href": "http://ourdomain/persons",
"name": {
"last": "brown"
}
}
]