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-<p align="center">set a json value quickly</a></p>
+<p align="center">set a json value quickly</p>
 
 SJSON is a Go package that provides a [very fast](#performance) and simple way to set a value in a json document. The purpose for this library is to provide efficient json updating for the [SummitDB](https://github.com/tidwall/summitdb) project. 
 For quickly retrieving json values check out [GJSON](https://github.com/tidwall/gjson).