How to remove escape characters in K6 js

I’m trying make a POST request using K6. I’m fetching the request body from a APIs.json file in my script.js. When I try to use the request body in script.js file it now consists of escape characters. How do I get rid of them? I tried JSON.parse and JSON.stringify, but did not work.

APIS.json:

{
    "apiRequests":
    [
        {
            "requestVerb" : "POST",
            "requestHeaders" : [{"Content-Type":"application/json","Authorization":"Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN"}],
            "requestEndpoint" : "/individual",
            "apiName": "management-4",
            "target": "target1",
            "responseVariables": ["id","name"],
            "responseHeaders": [""],
            "requestBody": {"title":"Mr","givenName":"Rohit","familyName":"Reddy"}
        }
    ]
}

script.js

// To perform testing
import http from 'k6/http'
// To import API requests file
// import { open } from 'k6/fs';

const host = __ENV.HOST;
console.log(`Testing host = ${host}`);

// Ignore certificates
export const options = {
    insecureSkipTLSVerify: true
};

// GET API Requests
let apiRequests = JSON.parse(open('./APIs.json'));
console.log(`log = ${apiRequests}`);

apiRequests = JSON.stringify(apiRequests);
console.log(`Stringify = ${apiRequests}`);


// K6 Main function
export default function() {
    let httpVerb = "get";
    http[httpVerb](`https://${host}/health/v1/health`);
}

Output:

time="2024-11-11T08:09:31Z" level=info msg="log = [object Object]" source=console
time="2024-11-11T08:09:31Z" level=info msg="Stringify = {"apiRequests":[{"requestVerb":"POST","requestHeaders":[{"Content-Type":"application/json","Authorization":"***"}],"requestEndpoint":"/individual","apiName":"management-4","target":"target1","responseVariables":["id","name"],"responseHeaders":[""],"requestBody":{"title":"Mr","givenName":"Rohit","familyName":"Reddy"}}]}" source=console

Expected output:

time="2024-11-11T08:09:31Z" level=info msg="log = [object Object]" source=console
time="2024-11-11T08:09:31Z" level=info msg="Stringify = {"apiRequests":[{"requestVerb":"POST","requestHeaders":[{"Content-Type":"application/json","Authorization":"***"}],"requestEndpoint":"/individual","apiName":"management-4","target":"target1","responseVariables":["id","name"],"responseHeaders":[""],"requestBody":{"title":"Mr","givenName":"Rohit","familyName":"Reddy"}}]}" source=console