jade ghost property

The template:

p= user

Outputs:

<p>{ admin: "true", human: "Foo Bar" }</p>

(among some other stuff that usually isn't seen by the the user but is used to render different parts of the layout (or not) depending on various factors)

The template:

p= user.human

Outputs:

<p>Foo Bar</p>

As expected so far. However, the template:

p= user.admin

Outputs:

<p></p>

I have no idea how this is even possible. The property is there when I output the entire object, but it disappears when I try to output just that property.

I've also tried using user['admin'] instead of user.admin, but that doesn't work either.

First question: how is this happening? Second question: how do I fix it?

Update 1: The pattern p #{user.admin} has the same effect, and p= user.admin.toString() results in a 500 error claiming 'user.admin' is not defined. Furthermore, JSON.stringify(user.admin) also results in the empty p tag (as in p= user.admin and p #{user.admin})

Update 2: p= JSON.stringify(user) does output the 'admin' property: {"admin":"true","human":"Foo Bar"} but iterating over user with each value,key in user does not output the 'admin' property. The output is extremely long in that case as it includes a bunch of functions and other things, but I used ctrl+f to search through the output and could not find 'admin'.