> The culprit turned out to be JSON strings containing zillions of backslashes. My guess is that there was a feedback loop somewhere, with the JSON output of a

> The culprit turned out to be JSON strings containing zillions of backslashes. My guess is that there was a feedback loop somewhere, with the JSON output of a process being fed into the same process as input, adding extra backslashes each time the data went through the loop.