I have

<#assign datesigned = record.custpage_master_agreement.datesigned />

which results in nothing being printed with

${datesigned!"foo"}

, but if I omit

.datesigned

and just have

<#assign datesigned = record.custpage_master_agreement />

I see the JSON,

{datesigned: "1/31/2011",client: "1586"}

. What am I missing?