The joke is that, regardless of how the type is declared in json, you are parsing a string. (your json blob is just a series of characters, not raw binary data)
Yes.
And many people here doesn't seem to get that.
I'm not a dev of any kind. I occasionally write some bash and awk scriots to automate some things and if I need some kind of plain text (non-binary) data format I prefer tsv over json.
So why do I still get this?
Is it just that many json advocates want to make sure others know json does support other data types than plain string?