diff --git a/pygeoapi/provider/speckle.py b/pygeoapi/provider/speckle.py
index 5a8d18f..5222333 100644
--- a/pygeoapi/provider/speckle.py
+++ b/pygeoapi/provider/speckle.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class SpeckleProvider(BaseProvider):
                 print(completed_process.stderr)
                 raise Exception(m)
 
-            patch_specklepy()
+        patch_specklepy()
 
         
         # assign global values
diff --git a/pygeoapi/provider/speckle_utils/patch/base_object_serializer.py b/pygeoapi/provider/speckle_utils/patch/base_object_serializer.py
index 3a80071..673d5bb 100644
--- a/pygeoapi/provider/speckle_utils/patch/base_object_serializer.py
+++ b/pygeoapi/provider/speckle_utils/patch/base_object_serializer.py
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ def safe_json_loads(obj: str, obj_id=None) -> Any:
         try:
             return ujson.loads(obj[:-2])
         except:
-            return json.loads(obj)
+            try:
+                return ujson.loads(obj[:-2])
+            except:
+                return json.loads(obj)
 
 
 class BaseObjectSerializer: