Alternatively, maybe you can get warmer with JMESPath, which has jp as its command line interface https://github.com/jmespath/jp .

The good thing about the JMESPath syntax is that it is the standard one when processing JSON in software like Ansible, Grafana, perhaps some more.

I'm an avid jq user. There are certainly situations where it's better to use python because it's just more sane and easier to read/write, but jq does a few things extremely well, namely, compressing json, and converting json files consisting of big-ass arrays into line delimited json files.