Thanks for the link. I played around with it and it looks like this may be what I am trying to do:

create an object and then reference certain properties from that object. You wouldn't know how to do this in VB.NET or point me in the right direction? Thanks again.

1JObject o = new JObject(
 2  new JProperty("Name", "John Smith"),
 3  new JProperty("BirthDate", new DateTime(1983, 3, 20))
 4  );
 5
 6JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
 7Person p = (Person)serializer.Deserialize(new JTokenReader(o), typeof(Person));
 8
 9Console.WriteLine(p.Name);
10// John Smith