How do I get my response to show ndjson data instead of text?

Question

My API call returns an ndjson format that wont allow me to use "data = response.json". My only work around is doing this. This give me a string format that is difficult to parse. After put into a pandas df, it is about 20 columns of dictionaries of dictionaries. Is there a better way of getting the ndjson data and/or parsing these columns?

import pandas as pd 
from io import StringIO
import ndjson as nd

data = response.text()
df = pd.read_json(StringIO(data), lines = True)