## Learned reasoning
- Read the request as characters and word fragments.
- Top learned intents: read_json=1.00, write_json=0.00, binary_search=0.00, fibonacci=0.00.
- Selected intent: read_json.

## Answer
```python
import json

def read_json(path: str):
    with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
        return json.load(f)
```