title: Why can't Amazon Redshift Parse this Valid JSON string?
body: <p>I'm using Amazon Redshift's JSON parsing abilities. Most of the time it works, but it fails in this case. I'm getting the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>error:  JSON parsing error
    code:      8001
    context:   invalid json object {"collection_id": 12, "activity_name": "Hour of Zen: The \"Dead Sea\" Float"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was under the impression that the backslash was the proper escape for the double quote (and this was automatically generated by Python's JSON package).</p>