My current work around is to “unbind” the click event from the pager buttons and then re-bind it and essentially copy/paste the code from the original click handler, with the exception that I keep track of the current page instead of deferring to “ts.p.page”.

It seems like I need the behavior of the grid when the datatype is “json” but allow me to hand it the data. So far, this doesn't seem possible. any thoughts?