vakata/jstree — Issue #164: Last Leaf passed "State" Causes Resursive Tree Loading
Author: YodaJStarWars
Created: 2012-02-02 20:19:59+00:00
State: open

I found this looking through the jsTree documentation for JSON_DATA. If you go look at the "Using the ajax config option" section and expand "Only Child" you can do so recursively until you have a deeply nested list.

Looking at the .json file that gets passed in statically, this option appears on the "Only child" node:

"state" : "closed"

Eliminating that from the node fixes the issue.