jq
curl http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/linux64/jq -o ~/bin_compciv/jq
chmod a+x ~/bin_compciv/jq
curl -s https://status.github.com/api/status.json | jq '.'
more info:
http://www.compciv.org/recipes/cli/jq-for-parsing-json/
Columns in one line:
echo '[{"name":"A","id":"1"}]' | jq -r '.[] | "(.id)\t(.name)"'