jq CentOS

# install jq
sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install jq -y
jq --version

# usage
$ echo '{
"response": [{
"id": "1",
"name": "Rachel Green"
}, {
"id": "2",
"name": "Sheldon Cooper"
}]
}' | jq .'response'