[jQuery] serialize() output in key/value pairs

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Is there a way to easily convert a string of parameters
[name=John&location=Boston] into key/value pairs [{name: "John",
location: "Boston"}]?  I found the FastSerialize plugin, but it claims
that the native one is much faster, and doesn't require the extra
plugin code.  What I want to be able to do, is just do
$.get("page.php",$('input').serialize()), just like you can in the
FastSerialize plugin.