Exporting a field_collection field resulted in fatal errorful code due to default value having {} in it

May be a field collect field issue, but figure features should not be exporting an entity anyway.

      'default_value' => array(
        0 => array(
          'entity' => { // this line
            "item_id" : null,
            "field_name" : "field_name",
            "field_name_amount" : { "und" : [ { "value" : "1" } ] },
            "field_name_type" : { "und" : [] }
          }, // and line
        ),
      ),