json format query

Hi I have a text file containing the following text

{
    "bg_colour": "#FFFFFF",

    "x_legend":{
        "text":        "X Scale Legend",
        "style":    "{font-size: 10px; color: #000000}"
    },
    "y_legend":{
        "text":        "Y Scale Legend",
        "style":    "{font-size: 11px; color: #000000}"
    },

    "elements":[
        {
            "type":        "bar",
            "alpha":    1,
            "colour":    "#736AFF",
            "font-size":    8,
            "on-show":    {"type":""},
            "values":    [9,6,7,9,5,7,6,9,2],
            "text":        "",
            "tip":        "Y Scale Legend:<br>#val#"
        }
    ],

    "x_axis":{
        "colour":    "#525151",
        "grid-colour":    "#CCCACA",
        "stroke":    1,
        "tick_height":    10,
        "labels":    ["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","Spetember"]
    },

    "y_axis":{
        "stroke":    1,
        "colour":    "#525151",
        "grid-colour":    "#CCCACA",
        "tick_length":    3,
        "offset":    0,
        "max":        10
    }

}

No i am using json.cfc which has the function to take in a coldfusion structure and then return the data in a json format.

http://www.epiphantastic.com/cfjson/examples.php

What i want is to create a similar structure for the data contained in the text file above which i can then pass to the method in json.cfc which will then return the data in json format.

Can anyone help in how i should create the coldfusion structure?

Thanks