diff --git a/src/Node.php b/src/Node.php
index 1c16e55..1971f65 100644
--- a/src/Node.php
+++ b/src/Node.php
@@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ public function getIterator(): PreOrderTraversal
         return new PreOrderTraversal($this);
     }
 
-    public function jsonSerialize(): array
+    /**
+     * @return mixed Intentionally returns mixed and not an array, so that overriding implementations may expand it to whatever value desired.
+     */
+    public function jsonSerialize(): mixed
     {
         return [
             'data' => $this->data(),