You can't - that isn't valid JSON data.
JSON looks like this:
{
"contacts": [
{
"id": 7113,
"name": "James Norris",
"birthDate": "1977-05-13T00:00:00",
"phone": "488-555-1212",
"address": {
"postalCode": "92115",
"street": "4627 Sunset Ave",
"city": "San Diego",
"state": "CA"
}
},
{
"id": 7114,
"name": "Mary Lamb",
"birthDate": "1974-10-21T00:00:00",
"phone": "337-555-1212",
"address": {
"postalCode": "49245",
"street": "1111 Industrial Way",
"city": "Dallas",
"state": "TX"
}
},
{
"id": 7115,
"name": "Robert Shoemaker",
"birthDate": "1968-02-08T00:00:00",
"phone": "643-555-1212",
"address": null
}
]
}
And your's isn't - it's just a collection of strings.
A list would look more like this:
{MyItems:[{item:"item a"},{item: "item b"},{item:"item c"}]}
And give C# classes like this:
public class MyItem
{
public string item { get; set; }
}
public class Root
{
public List<MyItem> MyItems { get; set; }
}