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How to include an array as part of a structure definition in GO?

I am trying to parse a relatively complex JSON bit. It has straight nodes and has arrays with a variable number of elements. Here is an example:

{
status: 200,
generated: "2014-07-23T13:09:30.315Z",
copyright: "Copyright (c) 2014 Us Not You. All Rights Reserved.",
results: 1,
start: 0,
links: {
        next: null,
        prev: null,
        self: "http://thing.com/thing.json"
    },
docs: [
        {
            id: "thingID_001",
        }
    ]
}

Simplified, of course. There may be zero or more documents, each of which has several nodes. The "links" are simple, I define a structure with the correct fields, and there we go. But the documents, I can’t get to the Marshal. Here is my code:

import (
    "net/http"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "encoding/json"
)
type Thinglinks struct {
    Next string
    Prev string
    Self string
}
//type ThingDoc struct {
//    Id string
//   Type string
//}
type ThingSection struct {
    Status int
    Generated string
    Copyright string
    Results int
    Start int
    Links thinglinks
    Docs []map[string]interface{}
}

func main() {
    resp, err := http.Get("http://thing.com/thing.json")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        }
    defer resp.Body.Close()
    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    var s ThingSection
    err3 := json.Unmarshal(body, &s)
    if err3 == nil {
        fmt.Println(s)
        fmt.Println(s.Links.Self)
        if len(s.Docs) >0 {
            fmt.Println(s.Docs[0])
        }
    } else {
        fmt.Println(err3)
    }
}

When I compile and run, I get the expected results for all nodes except Docs, which is always empty.

I strongly suspect that this is the definition of “Documents” in the type declaration for the ThingSection structure, but I could not figure out what to do there.

Any help?

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