I'm using cURL -s and getting back a progress meter

I'm submitting a cURL request that looks something like this:

curl -s -X GET http://google.com

The response I am supposed to be getting back is a json response.

Easy, right?

Instead I'm getting the json response back intermixed with several cURL progress bars.

Example:

\n % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current\n Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed\n\n 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\n100 62 100 36 100 26 560 404 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 562\n

Why is this happening and how do I get it to stop?

Even when I redirect the output to a file, I still get this progress bar information intermixed with the json output.

Any help here would be great!