Well not exactly — the part I was working on was validating the body, one step of which is validating that the body is an object (and thus JSON). restify's [bodyParser](http://mcavage.me/node-restify/#Bundled-Plugins) plugin is supposed to be responsible for converting any request whose `content-type` is `application/json` to a JSON object. It works fine for our other POST endpoints (like `/game/submit`), so I'm not sure why it would be failing here. At any rate, you shouldn't need to be doing a `JSON.parse` on the body.