VB.NET, HttpClient, Newtonsoft, and Async

Looking into updating a slew of VB.NET API to C# for a client, and figured I should brush off my VB.NET before getting too serious. And I figured that means I should make a console app, connect to a sample API URI at JsonPlaceholder , grab a collection of entities, serialize them, loop through, and access something on each individual entity instance. That's half (or more) of what any API does,…