diff --git a/ckan/lib/lazyjson.py b/ckan/lib/lazyjson.py
index 2d5d6b5a82a..56a1e5c5377 100644
--- a/ckan/lib/lazyjson.py
+++ b/ckan/lib/lazyjson.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import simplejson.encoder as json_encoder
 
 
-class LazyJSONObject(object):
+class LazyJSONObject(dict):
     '''An object that behaves like a dict returned from json.loads'''
     def __init__(self, json_string):
         self._json_string = json_string