Weird JSON parsing behavior in js, “Unexpected token :”

Question

As demonstrated in this jsfiddle, if you have a JS file and you create a JSON object without using it, it behaves differently depending on whether the keys(members) are wrap

Answer 1

I just realized than when loading the JSON via require and the filename does not end on .json i get this error. Renaming the file to bla.json and it works fine.