diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 22f07112..d4990362 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -31,3 +31,6 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20231012003039-104605ab7028 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
+
+// We might in the end decide to just go with the fork direcly.
+replace github.com/goccy/go-yaml => github.com/nobl9/go-yaml v0.0.0-20240626115914-6b82fd0d61b9
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 8410ed77..9343bf24 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.17.0 h1:icxd5fm+REJzpZx7ZfpaD87
 github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.17.0/go.mod h1:UkSxE5sNxxRwHyU+Scu5vgOQjsIJAF8j9muTVoKLVtA=
 github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.4.1 h1:pH2c5ADXtd66mxoE0Zm9SUhxE20r7aM3F26W0hOn+GE=
 github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.4.1/go.mod h1:nlOn6nFhuKACm19sB/8EGNn9GlaMV7XkbRSipzJ0Ii4=
-github.com/goccy/go-yaml v1.11.3 h1:B3W9IdWbvrUu2OYQGwvU1nZtvMQJPBKgBUuweJjLj6I=
-github.com/goccy/go-yaml v1.11.3/go.mod h1:wKnAMd44+9JAAnGQpWVEgBzGt3YuTaQ4uXoHvE4m7WU=
 github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 v5.2.1 h1:OuVbFODueb089Lh128TAcimifWaLhJwVflnrgM17wHk=
 github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 v5.2.1/go.mod h1:pqrtFR0X4osieyHYxtmOUWsAWrfe1Q5UVIyoH402zdk=
 github.com/google/go-cmp v0.6.0 h1:ofyhxvXcZhMsU5ulbFiLKl/XBFqE1GSq7atu8tAmTRI=
@@ -42,6 +40,8 @@ github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.13/go.mod h1:7S9/ev0klgBDR4GtXTXX8a3vIGJpMovk
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.16/go.mod h1:kYGgaQfpe5nmfYZH+SKPsOc2e4SrIfOl2e/yFXSvRLM=
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 h1:xfD0iDuEKnDkl03q4limB+vH+GxLEtL/jb4xVJSWWEY=
 github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20/go.mod h1:W+V8PltTTMOvKvAeJH7IuucS94S2C6jfK/D7dTCTo3Y=
+github.com/nobl9/go-yaml v0.0.0-20240626115914-6b82fd0d61b9 h1:HWAY7k8zA8T3dgQRg6llwyWshguD6bIeaVXukNrnen4=
+github.com/nobl9/go-yaml v0.0.0-20240626115914-6b82fd0d61b9/go.mod h1:wKnAMd44+9JAAnGQpWVEgBzGt3YuTaQ4uXoHvE4m7WU=
 github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 h1:FEBLx1zS214owpjy7qsBeixbURkuhQAwrK5UwLGTwt4=
 github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1/go.mod h1:bwawxfHBFNV+L2hUp1rHADufV3IMtnDRdf1r5NINEl0=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZbAQM=
diff --git a/manifest/v1alpha/parser/parser_test.go b/manifest/v1alpha/parser/parser_test.go
index 5d091c58..82785287 100644
--- a/manifest/v1alpha/parser/parser_test.go
+++ b/manifest/v1alpha/parser/parser_test.go
@@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ func Test_ParseObject_EnsureAllKindsAreParsed(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// References:
+// - https://github.com/nobl9/go-yaml/pull/3 (fork)
+// - https://github.com/nobl9/go-yaml/pull/457 (upstream)
+func Test_ParseObject_DoubleQuotedJSONHandling(t *testing.T) {
+	data, format := readParserTestFile(t, "cloudwatch_slo.yaml")
+	_, err := ParseObject(data, manifest.KindSLO, format)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
 func readParserTestFile(t *testing.T, filename string) ([]byte, manifest.ObjectFormat) {
 	t.Helper()
 	data, err := parserTestData.ReadFile(filepath.Join("test_data", filename))
diff --git a/manifest/v1alpha/parser/test_data/cloudwatch_slo.yaml b/manifest/v1alpha/parser/test_data/cloudwatch_slo.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..90780895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/manifest/v1alpha/parser/test_data/cloudwatch_slo.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+apiVersion: n9/v1alpha
+kind: SLO
+metadata:
+  name: cloudwatch-json
+  project: cloudwatch
+spec:
+  budgetingMethod: Occurrences
+  description: ""
+  indicator:
+    metricSource:
+      kind: Agent
+      name: cloudwatch
+      project: cloudwatch
+  objectives:
+    - displayName: ""
+      op: lte
+      rawMetric:
+        query:
+          cloudWatch:
+            json: "[{\"Id\": \"e1\",\"Expression\": \"MAX(FILL(METRICS(), 0))\",\"Period\": 60},{\"Id\": \"m1\",\"MetricStat\": {\"Metric\": {\"Namespace\": \"AWS/ApplicationELB\",\"MetricName\": \"TargetResponseTime\",\"Dimensions\": [{\"Name\": \"LoadBalancer\",\"Value\": \"app/123/123\"},{\"Name\": \"TargetGroup\",\"Value\": \"targetgroup/123/123\"}]},\"Period\": 60,\"Stat\": \"Average\"},\"ReturnData\": false}]"
+            region: eu-central-1
+      target: 0.8
+      value: 0.9
+      name: objective-1
+  service: cloudwatch-service
+  timeWindows:
+    - count: 1
+      isRolling: true
+      unit: Hour
\ No newline at end of file