getPackage = function() {
  // Search up the folder hierarchy for the first package.json
  var packageFolder = path.resolve('.');
  while (!fs.existsSync(path.join(packageFolder, 'package.json'))) {
    var parent = path.dirname(packageFolder);
    if (parent === packageFolder) { break; }
    packageFolder = parent;
  }
  return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packageFolder,'package.json'), 'UTF-8'));
}
Load information about this project from the package.json
@return {Object} The package information