JSONField() as base_field for ArrayField() for creating an object array

[Jim Biggs]

Current Environment:

• Latest Django-2
• Latest Django Rest Framework
• PostgreSQL-9.5
• Ubuntu-16.04

My understanding of the JSONField() is that it is a field container for a single JSON object. My use-case requires an array of objects. So, I created an ArrayField() that nests a JSONField() as its model base_field -- as shown in the code block, below:

questions = ArrayField(JSONField(null=True, blank=True, default=dict), max_length=200, blank=True, default=[])

Everything seems to work fine with the exception of the JSON object being stringified, as shown below:

"questions": [
                "{
                      \"question\": \"What is the answer to everything?\", 
                      \"answer\": \"42\"
                 }",
                "{
                      \"question\": \"What year is it?\", 
                      \"answer\": \"2018\"
                 }"
           ],

I believe the inserted backslashes (\) are a result of the serialization process. My question is whether there is a better way for me to define this object array model field?

Regards... Jim