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@@ -14,5 +14,64 @@ arke is a dumb python monitoring client i am currently working on to monitor htt
 
 ## TODO
 - [ ] Fix loading json from file
+  - alright see "json loading" heading in this file.
 - [ ] Fix state comparison and post to only post the item that has changed since last run
 - [ ] update this readme.
+
+## json loading
+confused here. in python, a dict is the key/value store that is used to map to json. all my functions return a dict:
+
+``` python
+def monitor_HttpTargets(monitoringtargets):
+    responseTable = {}
+	...
+    return responseTable
+
+
+def monitor_DomainExpiry(targets):
+    responseTable = {}
+	...
+    return responseTable
+
+
+def monitor_TlsExpiry(targets):
+    responseTable = {}
+	...
+    return responseTable
+```
+
+Ok so that part's straight forward. Then, i combine all of them into a single keyed dict, so I have a dict of dicts:
+
+
+``` python
+    datastore = {}
+    
+    datastore['http'] = monitor_HttpTargets(arkevars.httpTargets)
+    datastore['certs'] = monitor_TlsExpiry(arkevars.tlsTargets)
+    datastore['whois'] = monitor_DomainExpiry(arkevars.domains_to_check)
+
+```
+OK again, straight forward. Here's where shit gets less obvious to me. I need to convert this variable containing a dict into a json object in a file. I do this like so:
+
+```python
+# write new results to file
+with open(this_round_file, "a+", encoding="utf-8") as outfile:
+	json.dump(datastore, outfile, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True)
+```
+
+ok, so crafting the json object seems to make sense, and seems to be pretty straight forward. What about reading the 'json' object? WELL THEREIN LIES THE TALE MY GOOD BITCH
+
+```python
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "arke.py", line 114, in <module>
+    json_data = json.load(json_File)
+  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
+    return loads(fp.read(),
+  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
+    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
+  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
+    raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
+json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 133 (char 132)
+```
+
+this is where I get. loading that file doesn't work. Which seems to suggest that how I'm crafting the json string written to the file with `json.dump` is problematic! But I haven't figured out /why/ ugh.