Jquery: read a div containing html encoded json

Question

I'm trying to read in data in a bunch of in-page divs and use a plugin to pretty-print them:

$(".entries").each(function(){
    var input = $(this).text();
    $(this).JSONView(input, { collapsed: true });
});

and it all works nicely until I've got JSON that includes html encoded data, like this:

{ "0001" : { "size" : "16mo (6 1/2")", } }

Jquery's .text() and .html(), are converting the the html entity " in the source to a real " and the string is not valid json for the next step.

Any ideas?