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Although I'm also skeptical of coding in JSON, s-expressions are pretty close to a JSON subset (with the caveat that everything needs to be quoted).

  (x . (y . (z . NIL))) <=> ['x', ['y' , ['z', null]]]

In Lisp, (x x x) denotes a list which contains three elements which are pointers to the same symbol object.

The first one is the flat list (x y z); the JSON one seems to be equivalent to (x (y (z nil))).

You're right! My scheme is rusty I guess.

I should have said:

  (x . (y . (z . NIL))) <=> ['x', 'y', 'z']