With Postman, it returns readable JSON. Somewhere I read that if you get with the contenttype application/json, it returns the correct json result. And that seems to work with Postman but not this Excel VBA project. I added the json.stringify to the return and that does pull in a json string. So I think I am good to go. Also @alien4u, the code for the saved search that I am using, returns 8919 records according to that last log.debug. the foreach loop is filling it.
So thank you both @alien4u and @Eric B!!!