You have a program with human readable output. Now a second program needs that information. There are two choices:

1. Do the technically right and challenging thing – create a protocol and rewrite the first program and then write the second program (utilizing something like libxo in the first program maybe).
2. Fuck everybody for the decades to come by deciding that parsing text is the way to go.

I would like to thank everybody involved in choosing number 2!

jc is an effort to fix (more work around) that decision. Thanks to the author and I hope it will make your DevOps life at least a bit more tolerable.