facebook_sentiment.py

import pandas as pd
from nltk.sentiment.vader import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
from nltk.stem import LancasterStemmer, WordNetLemmatizer 
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.probability import FreqDist
import re
import unicodedata
import nltk
import json
import inflect
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import json
# load json into python, assign to 'data'
with open('your_posts_1.json') as file:
    data = json.load(file)
print(type(data))     # a list
print(type(data[0]))  # first object in the list: a dictionary
print(len(data))