title: google map JSON.parse: bad escaped character at line 1 column 42 of the JSON data
body: <p>I have string which was stringified from google map object.</p>
  
  <p>the string: [{"type":"polygon","path":"kryA}iejSZYJ\I^"}]</p>
  
  <p>When trying to parse this string back to object using JSON.parse, I've got the error </p>
  
  <pre><code>SyntaxError: JSON.parse: bad escaped character at line 1 column 42 of the JSON data
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my code was </p>
  
  <pre><code>JSON.parse('[{"type":"polygon","path":"kryA}iejSZYJ\\I^"}]')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So what is wrong here? Did google produce a bad code that when stringified, it can not go back to object again?</p>