Bottle and Json

How do I go about returning json data from a bottle request handler. I see a dict2json method in the bottle src but I am not sure how to use it.

What is in the documentation:

@route('/spam')
def spam():
    return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()}

Gives me this when I bring up the page:

<html>
    <head></head>
    <body>statusservertime</body>
</html>