Recursive function to create hierarchical JSON object?

Question

I\'m just not a good enough computer scientist to figure this out by myself :(

I have an API that returns JSON responses that look like this:

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Answer 1

def get_node(node_id):   
    request = urllib2.Request(ROOT_URL + node_id)
    response = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(request).read())
    temp_obj = {}
    temp_obj['id'] = response['id']
    temp_obj['name'] = response['name']
    temp_obj['children'] = [get_node(child['id']) for child in response['childNode']]
    return temp_obj

hierarchy = get_node(ROOT_NODE)