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For JSON data, you gotta escape the quotes properly in some shells. Try:

```
curl -X POST https://example.com/api \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "{\"key\":\"value\"}"
```

Or just use a file with `-d @data.json`. Way cleaner!