diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9de44e3..8fa8c63 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 .*sw*
 *.jar
 *.class
+.lein-*
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6db353c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>com.twinql.clojure</groupId>
+  <artifactId>clj-apache-http</artifactId>
+  <version>2.3.1</version>
+  <name>clj-apache-http</name>
+  <description>Clojure HTTP library using the Apache HttpClient.</description>
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/roman/clj-apache-http.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/roman/clj-apache-http.git</developerConnection>
+    <tag>3d3de1da943ec7dfac5c7c419f5a31efdbf368ff</tag>
+    <url>https://github.com/roman/clj-apache-http</url>
+  </scm>
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+    <testSourceDirectory>test</testSourceDirectory>
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>resources</directory>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+    <testResources>
+      <testResource>
+        <directory>test-resources</directory>
+      </testResource>
+    </testResources>
+  </build>
+  <repositories>
+    <repository>
+      <id>central</id>
+      <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
+    </repository>
+    <repository>
+      <id>clojars</id>
+      <url>http://clojars.org/repo/</url>
+    </repository>
+  </repositories>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
+      <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
+      <version>1.3.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
+      <artifactId>data.json</artifactId>
+      <version>0.1.2</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
+      <version>4.0.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
+      <version>4.0.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+      <version>1.1.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+      <version>4.0.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
+<!-- This file was autogenerated by Leiningen.
+  Please do not edit it directly; instead edit project.clj and regenerate it.
+  It should not be considered canonical data. For more information see
+  https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen -->
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 097e295..2d76532 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-(defproject com.twinql.clojure/clj-apache-http "2.3.1"
+(defproject com.twinql.clojure/clj-apache-http "2.3.2-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "Clojure HTTP library using the Apache HttpClient."
- :dev-dependencies [[leiningen/lein-swank "1.1.0"]]
- :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
-                [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
+ :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]
+                [org.clojure/data.json "0.1.2"]
                 [org.apache.httpcomponents/httpcore "4.0.1"]
                 [org.apache.httpcomponents/httpmime "4.0.1"]
                 [commons-logging/commons-logging "1.1.1"]
diff --git a/src/com/twinql/clojure/http.clj b/src/com/twinql/clojure/http.clj
index fe93845..79bbc9a 100644
--- a/src/com/twinql/clojure/http.clj
+++ b/src/com/twinql/clojure/http.clj
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
   (:refer-clojure :exclude [get])
   (:use clojure.set)
   (:require
-     [clojure.contrib.io :as io]
-     [clojure.contrib.json :as json])
+     [clojure.java.io :as io]
+     [clojure.data.json :as json])
   (:import 
     (java.lang Exception)
     (java.net URI)
@@ -205,17 +205,17 @@
 
 (defmethod entity-as :string [#^HttpEntity entity as status]
   (with-open [#^InputStream stream (.getContent entity)]
-    (io/slurp* stream)))
+    (slurp stream)))
 
 ;;; JSON handling.
 ;;; We prefer keywordizing.
 (defmethod entity-as :json [#^HttpEntity entity as status]
   (with-open [#^InputStream stream (.getContent entity)]
-    (clojure.contrib.json/read-json (io/reader stream) true)))
+    (json/read-json (io/reader stream) true)))
 
 (defmethod entity-as :json-string-keys [#^HttpEntity entity as status]
   (with-open [#^InputStream stream (.getContent entity)]
-    (clojure.contrib.json/read-json (io/reader stream) false)))
+    (json/read-json (io/reader stream) false)))
 
 
 ;;; To avoid overhead in shutting down a ClientConnectionManager,