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❔ Deserializing JSON

I'm working on a project where I need to deserialize a JSON api response, and do things with the data. This is a little demo thing:
class Response {
    [JsonProperty("success")]
    [DefaultValue(false)]
    public bool Success { get; private set; }

    [JsonProperty("days")]
    public Days Days { get; private set; }
}

class Days {
    [JsonProperty("first_day")]
    [DefaultValue("monday")]
    public string FirstDay { get; private set; }
}


My issue is, I need to be able to use
Response.Days.FirstDay, when my JSON response looks like this: {'success': true, 'first_night': 'friday'}
Essentially, I want the DefaultValue to be present, even if the JSON doesn't contain the 'first_day' key.
I'm really not sure how to do this, because I'd need to do this with dozens of attributes in about 6 subclasses, so doing it all manually would take ages and doesn't seem good for maintainability.

Any help on how I can achieve this result? To get everything to 'exist' even if it doesn't exist in the JSON, just by using the default value?
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