diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 9ec7975b..99260453 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -603,8 +603,11 @@ class Response(object):
 
         return content
 
-    def json(self):
-        """Returns the json-encoded content of a response, if any."""
+    def json(self, **kwargs):
+        """Returns the json-encoded content of a response, if any.
+
+        :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``json.loads`` takes.
+        """
 
         if not self.encoding and len(self.content) > 3:
             # No encoding set. JSON RFC 4627 section 3 states we should expect
@@ -613,8 +616,8 @@ class Response(object):
             # a best guess).
             encoding = guess_json_utf(self.content)
             if encoding is not None:
-                return json.loads(self.content.decode(encoding))
-        return json.loads(self.text or self.content)
+                return json.loads(self.content.decode(encoding), **kwargs)
+        return json.loads(self.text or self.content, **kwargs)
 
     @property
     def links(self):
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index 9f2503db..c974e980 100644
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         """Teardown."""
         pass
 
-    def test_assertion(self):
-        assert 1
-
     def test_entry_points(self):
 
         requests.session
@@ -76,10 +73,6 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(request.url,
             "http://example.com/path?key=value&a=b#fragment")
 
-    def test_HTTP_200_OK_GET(self):
-        r = requests.get(httpbin('get'))
-        self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
-
     def test_HTTP_200_OK_GET_ALTERNATIVE(self):
         r = requests.Request('GET', httpbin('get'))
         s = requests.Session()
@@ -281,6 +274,11 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertTrue(hasattr(resp, 'hook_working'))
 
+    def test_links(self):
+        url = 'https://api.github.com/users/kennethreitz/repos?page=1&per_page=10'
+        r = requests.head(url=url)
+        self.assertEqual(r.links['next']['rel'], 'next')
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()