Problem with JSON dataset format

I have a local json dataset with the following form.

{
'id01234': {'key1': value1, 'key2': value2, 'key3': value3},
'id01235': {'key1': value1, 'key2': value2, 'key3': value3},
.
.
.
'id09999': {'key1': value1, 'key2': value2, 'key3': value3}
}
Note that instead of a list of records it's basically a dictionary of key value pairs with the keys being the record_ids and the values being the corresponding record.

Reading this with json:

```
data = datasets.load('json', data_files='path_to_local.json')
```
Throws an error and asks me to chose a field. What's the right way to handle this?