go - decode json including json encoded strings

Question

Hey guys I am getting websocket information from external Api and it's give me json response in this way:

 `{"name":"message","args":["{"method":"chatMsg","params":{"channel":"channel","name":"name","nameColor":"B5B11E","text":"<a href="https://play.spotify.com/browse" target="_blank">https://play.spotify.com/browse</a>","time":1455397119}}"]}`

I am putting it into this struc

type main struct {

Name string `json:"name"`
Args []arg  `json:"args"`
}

type arg struct {
    Method string`json:"method"`
    Params par `json:"params"`
}
type par struct {
    Channel     string `json:"channel,omitempty"`
    Name        string `json:"name,omitempty"`
    NameColor   string `json:"nameColor,omitempty"`
    Text        string `json:"text,omitempty"`
    Time        int64  `json:"time,omitempty"`
}

and decode it with code

sReplace := strings.NewReplacer(`"{`, "{", `"]`, "]", "", ``)
strN := sReplace.Replace(str)
r := strings.NewReader(strN)
d := json.NewDecoder(r)
m := main{}

I am getting error

invalid character 'h' after object key:value pair

I know that the error is result of text field value. Is there any good way to clean it up or tell the decoder to ignore content of text field?

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