Unknown characters added to meta data values

The answer was that I was not referencing the 0 index of the json post-meta-fields array. It was trying to return an array instead of just the string.

Instead of 

 'color' => $article_array['post-meta-fields']['color']

I needed

'color' => $article_array['post-meta-fields']['color'][0]

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