Work Life: Cannot get the value of a token type 'StartObject' as a string. (Jira and C#)

Using JSON deserializer for the response from Jira. This is caused by Jira admins updating one of the fields from a string to an object.

Is there a way to default problems to a value or null instead of failing? The field was a minor field but the entire report fails. Would like there to be a way to still get the report minus the one field.

C# provides the error on the character count. I had to use an editor to search the character count as my response is well over 10k characters.