How would I parse this set of JSON Data?

Question

Hi everyone,
I am having trouble parsing this set of JSON formatted data:
{
  "sportsNews": [
    {
      "title": {
        "text": "Ryan Tannehill's 2 late TDs rally Dolphins to rivalry win over Bills",
        "href": "http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=400554338"
      },
      "description": {
        "text": "win over Bills (November 14, 2014, 12:08 AM ET)",
        "href": "http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=400554338"
      }
    }
in order to access keys would I do a valueForKeyPath: @"title.text"?

Michael Park · Answer

{
results: {
  "sportsNews": [
    {
      "title": {
        "text": "Dallas-area teacher fired over racial tweets",
        "href": "http://news.yahoo.com/dallas-area-teacher-fired-over-ferguson-tweets-154012279.html"
      },
      "description": "DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Dallas-area school board fired a teacher Friday who posted racially charged tweets about the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri."
    },
    {
      "title": {
        "text": "Blue Cash Preferred® Card",
        "href": "https://beap.gemini.yahoo.com/mbclk?bv=1.0.0&es=lcRLXhYGIS.y7NlYXOJwFZTrCpKhY4O0DRWjGxw0nV9yjO6uLe297HeqCaviyZ81hc8nzjJIyHZhmJdHVI4nkcDdq3Fkty9i8tzXuxUHq0GeWJmuiDekqRE80Bd0QS7Fg0g9v8Nx.4YIkVks0Qv14PkPPyDZaK4bgOcta1..bzM.SN.PLj7xEsVzwNKBBeNMCEK0w4TLUq5cSf7wHw5mWu1UhNYw2ADGkpQMnK5VpG1mPFMTlvtMVk.GZT0PlWkh2ChHuWMRtyBuXIZRYnMyQifBJo6TC3zi2Mx8cbPEXBfjAohdZAcqN5PbGd4.WneUnF246XITTLU6K2JuhJnDgLHo4KMwvjRLayaUARlOFdG3.ghRjg1ocCD4vWXeNiweDTvZATw0oBhVE1TCqregKl78MWewmyPFiwZ2irocfjRFKhCu0MFkzbh6NlORADkklBLAZEtFrn927M9GYdxNSjMURYRM3Yb8Bc6ivbUZ4VtyWFCBM4X4o3Gtaplb2pL4ammNqTrBvgLIVUncY46ZqLOr6NVsG1hD4JCLpJqltqptq6O4mCPSBJIGELb1oTVjopi7ax2.F1mNZmGOAOcbaeqUS00FlC8f4ZJBnBehc0_r6exAePDrMq.vpLzPAn8JsbTSazID0YoKcDFimhDry5E5DugIGzzHb2.4Elz766sVUjLrhcRObcMFxIkCDp64wH7vcjKo5Hm9odG1nZ.VWJKNhr9EQ.tql6SXk4KwjaVjVphmet3h1w--%26lp="
      },
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    },
    {
      "title": {
        "text": "",
        "href": ""
      },
      "description": "There’s no better time of year for the video game industry than the holidays. Most of the biggest releases hit store shelves in November while all the games from years past go on sale. It’s a great time to be a gamer, which is why we thought it would be appropriate to share some of GameStop’s best…"
    },

Michael Park · Answer

assuming that there is more of that set of data and I have the sportsNews array would this code work? I have a table of blank cells. I am accessing results first (which is so in my data), then the sportsNews collection. 
```c
  NSDictionary *dataDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:0 error:&error];
 NSArray *sportsArray = [dataDictionary valueForKeyPath:@"results.sportsNews"];
for (NSDictionary *sportsDictionary in sportsArray) {
    sportPost *sp = [sportsPost sportPostWithTitle:[sportPostDictionary valueForKeyPath:@"title.text"]];
    sp.description = [sportPostDictionary valueForKeyPath:@"description.text"];
    [self.sportPost addObject:sp];
```

Jason Wayne · Answer

Assuming that you already got the sportsNews array, and assuming there is more to one of that set of information, you could enumerate through all of them and get the values out.
For example, 
for (NSDictionary *theDictionary in sportsNewArray)
{
   NSString * theTitleOfThePost = [theDictionary valueForKeyPath:@"title.text"];
}

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