Parsing Json For A Page - Render Since It Was Written To Use A Js Library

I have a JSON file with multiple containers that has built a webpage. I need to create a javascript from this file to render a page since it was written to use a js library (I think scriptaculous or doj). I want to use jQuery to do this -- at least that's what I'm told I can do. I understand that JSON is a data-exchange language like XML. Here's some code:

Code:
var nov_info= {
'categories':[
{N:'nwItem1',O:'Composition',V:School Supplies > Paper> Notebooks},
{N:'nwItem2,O:'Crayons',V:'Elementary > Art > Art Supplies'},
{N:'nwItem3',O:'Calculators',V:'High School > College Prep> Trigonometry'},
{N:'nwItem4',O:'Maps',V:'Middle School > US History > Civil War'}
],
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