json config not working

init output

2018/04/27 15:32:46 [WARN] Invalid log level: "true". Defaulting to level: TRACE. Valid levels are: [TRACE DEBUG INFO WARN ERROR]
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [INFO] Terraform version: 0.11.7  41e50bd32a8825a84535e353c3674af8ce799161
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [INFO] Go runtime version: go1.10.1
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [INFO] CLI args: []string{"/Users/gnydick/tools/terraform", "init"}
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [DEBUG] Attempting to open CLI config file: /Users/gnydick/.terraformrc
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [DEBUG] File doesn't exist, but doesn't need to. Ignoring.
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [INFO] CLI command args: []string{"init"}
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [DEBUG] command: loading backend config file: /Users/gnydick/src/deployments/internal/uber-registry
2018/04/27 15:32:46 [DEBUG] plugin: waiting for all plugin processes to complete...
There are some problems with the configuration, described below.

The Terraform configuration must be valid before initialization so that
Terraform can determine which modules and providers need to be installed.

Error: Error loading /Users/gnydick/src/deployments/internal/uber-registry/config.tf.json: -: "module" must be followed by a name