diff --git a/bashbot-lib.sh b/bashbot-lib.sh
index e74073c..0efab6a 100755
--- a/bashbot-lib.sh
+++ b/bashbot-lib.sh
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode() {
 
 gettext() {
   local text="$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" | grep -om1\
-   '\("text"\|"caption"\):"\(\\"\|[^"]*\)*"\(,\|}\)' | tail -n1)"
+   '{\?\("text"\|"caption"\):"\(\\"\|[^"]*\)*"\(,\|}\)' | grep -v "^{" | tail -n1)"
   grep "^\"text\"" <<< "${text}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${text:8:-2}"\
   || {
     grep "^\"caption\"" <<< "${text}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${text:11:-2}"