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HTML

<table id="firstItem">
</table>

CSS

td {
    border: 1px solid silver;
    padding: 5px;
}

JavaScript

var jsonText = '[ { "cid": "3", "pid": "0", "nid": "12", "uid": "4", "subject": "test2", "hostname": "127.0.0.1", "created": "1374084646", "changed": "1374084645", "status": "1", "thread": "02/", "name": "chrisr", "mail": "", "homepage": "", "language": "en", "uuid": "e4729a69-7f6f-4091-98a0-0a040fe683f1" }, { "cid": "2", "pid": "0", "nid": "13", "uid": "4", "subject": "TEST comment 2", "hostname": "127.0.0.1", "created": "1374072245", "changed": "1374072244", "status": "1", "thread": "01/", "name": "chrisr", "mail": "", "homepage": "", "language": "en", "uuid": "b4d5a084-8aa3-4828-b6e4-17396cbaf2f6" }, { "cid": "1", "pid": "0", "nid": "12", "uid": "4", "subject": "test comment", "hostname": "127.0.0.1", "created": "1374072176", "changed": "1374072175", "status": "1", "thread": "01/", "name": "chrisr", "mail": "", "homepage": "", "language": "en", "uuid": "7ade4906-7d6e-4cad-9f97-7f43eadea731" } ]';

var jo = $.parseJSON(jsonText);

alert('The JSON object has this many elements: ' + jo.length);

// let's make a table out of the first element for fun

var $table = $('#firstItem');
$.each(jo[0], function (i, val) {
    var $r = $('<tr>');
    var $c = $('<td>').text(i).appendTo($r);
    $c = $('<td>').text(val).appendTo($r);
    $table.append($r);
});