Parsing JSON array nodejs

so I'm learning NodeJS and javascript in general, and playing around with it and I have some problems parsing a JSON. I receive the following from the "user":

{
  "sync_contact_list": [
    {
      "name": "c",
      "number": "789",
      "email": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "b",
      "number": "123",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "name": "a",
      "number": "416",
      "email": ""
    }
  ]
}

My question is how can i properly parse this to get the individual bits:

{
  "name": "a",
  "number": "416",
  "email": ""
}

I've been trying to do it by doing var jsonObject = JSON.parse(req.body); ,but I keep getting parsing errors, no matter how I vary the JSON that I do receive (individual components, all of it, etc).

Could anyone one point out what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: So i use express to deal with the different paths. So i have app.js:

var express = require('express')
  , routes = require('./routes')
//var mysql = require('mysql');
var app = module.exports = express.createServer();

// Configuration

app.configure(function(){
  app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
  //app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(app.router);
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })); 
});

app.configure('production', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler());  
});

// Routes

//app.post('/', routes.syncServiceIndex);

app.post('/syncService', routes.synchServicePost);
app.get('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/sync', routes.synchServiceSync);
app.post('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/push', routes.synchServicePush);
app.del('/syncService/:syncServiceUser', routes.synchServiceDel);

app.post('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/contacts/push', routes.synchServiceContactsPush);
app.get('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/contacts/sync', routes.synchServiceContactsSync);

app.post('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/contacts/', routes.synchServiceContactsPost);
app.get('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/contacts/:contactId', routes.synchServiceContactsGet);
app.put('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/contacts/:contactId', routes.synchServiceContactsPut);
app.del('/syncService/:syncServiceUser/contacts/:contactId', routes.synchServiceContactsDel);


app.listen(3000);


console.log("Express server listening on port %d in %s mode", app.address().port, app.settings.env);

And then I have index.js, where I basically have the following for each route.

exports.synchServicePost = function(req, res) {
    console.log('synchServicePost');
    console.log("BODY:"+JSON.stringify(req.body));
    var jsonObject = JSON.parse(req.body);


    res.statusCode = 200;
    res.send("OK\n");
}

The request is made with a line free JSON:

curl -i -d "{'sync_contact_list':[{'name':'c','number':'789','email':''},{'name':'b','number':'123','email':'[email protected]'},{'name':'a','number':'416','email':''}]}"  http://localhost:3000/syncService

EDIT: I realized I should probably change the Content Type to application/json. in this case, for JSON.stringify I get the following:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
at parse (native)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/alex/peekcode/quipmail/synch/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/bodyParser.js:71:15)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:61:17)
at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:133:23)
at Socket.ondata (http.js:1029:22)
at Socket._onReadable (net.js:677:27)
at IOWatcher.onReadable [as callback] (net.js:177:10)