protected function get_parsed_response( $raw_body ) {

		$json_start = strpos( $raw_body, '{' );
		$json_end = strrpos( $raw_body, '}' ) + 1; // inclusive

		$json = substr( $raw_body, $json_start, ( $json_end - $json_start ) );

		return json_decode( $json, $this->json_decode_as_array );
	}