A standard http GET request should do it. Then you can use JSON.parse() to make it into a json object.
function Get(yourUrl){
var Httpreq = new XMLHttpRequest(); // a new request
Httpreq.open("GET",yourUrl,false);
Httpreq.send(null);
return Httpreq.responseText;
}
then
var json_obj = JSON.parse(Get(yourUrl));
console.log("this is the author name: "+json_obj.author_name);
that’s basically it