As fellow monks have said, the problem here is that it is not portable json, it needs to be evalled into a javascript environment, like your browser. So if you are in perl, what can you do? Preparse it! Lines like 'ontouchstart' in window replace them with 0 (false). And whenever you see ": new Date(", just divide the number by 1000 to get a valid epoch (the extra 3 digits are microseconds, do you need them?)

#!/usr/bin/perl

$str=' publish_date: new Date(1431654084199) ' ;
$str =~ s/:\s*new Date\((\d+)\)\s*/&epoch2timestring($1)/ge;
print $str . "\n";

sub epoch2timestring{
    my ($e) = @_;
    $e=~s/.{3}$//; # eat 3 last digits
    my $result = scalar localtime($e);
    return ': "' . $result . '" '; # gmtime() ?
}

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prints:

 publish_date: "Fri May 15 03:41:24 2015"

In reply to Re: JSON decode problem by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread JSON decode problem by vlad.goshko

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