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Yes, it's a field. Specifically, a field containing human-readable information about what is going on in adjacent fields, much like a comment. I see no issue with putting such information in a json file.
As for "you don't comment by putting information in variables": In Python, your objects have the
__doc__attribute, which is specifically used for this purpose.