Using the Django API - django

Question

First of all, any help with this would be amazing! I am currently trying to learn Django and am also fairly new to Python. I am trying to create a simple project management web service that could communicate using JSON with another application. All it needs to do is:
Give a list of all projects.
Give a list of all tasks for each of the projects.
Allow users to submit time for a project and task.
For models I currently have a 'Project' model and 'Task' model. I have filled the database with some dummy information. My project model has variables id, name, and description. Task just has project, task_name.
My view for task 1 above is
def api(request):
projects = Project.objects.all()#.order_by('id')
projects = serializers.serialize('json', projects, indent=2)
return HttpResponse(projects, mimetype='application/json')
associated url is url(r'^api/project/$', 'project.views.api'),
However this outputs the text below when typing
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/project/
into the browser. Is there a better way to test JSON output? I would rather it only output the 'id' and 'name'. For some reason the id doesn't even show. This is what I put for id in models id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True). It works in the interactive shell.
[
{
"pk": 1,
"model": "project.project",
"fields": {
"name": "Project One",
"description": "This is the description for project one"
}
},
{
"pk": 2,
"model": "project.project",
"fields": {
"name": "Project Two",
"description": "This is Project Two"
}
}
]
I learn by example so if someone could show me how this should be done I would be extremely grateful!
By the way for outputting the list of tasks, I was thinking the url would be something like:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/project/?project_name
but I'm not sure how to handle that in the view.