为什么JSON解析不会因传递给Decode（）的类型完全不同而失败？

I have the following data structures which I'd like to parse from an API:

type OrderBook struct {
    Pair       string           `json:"pair"`
    UpdateTime int64            `json:"update_time"`
}

type depthResponse struct {
    Result OrderBook `json:"result"`
    // doesn't matter here
    //Cmd    string              `json:"-"`
}

and when I parse the following:

data := `{"error":{"code":"3016","msg":"交易对错误"},"cmd":"depth"}`

It doesn't fail. Why?

Full source code (playground)

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "strings"
)

type OrderBook struct {
    Pair       string           `json:"pair"`
    UpdateTime int64            `json:"update_time"`
}

type depthResponse struct {
    Result OrderBook `json:"result"`
}

func main() {
    data := `{"error":{"code":"3016","msg":"交易对错误"},"cmd":"depth"}`
    r := strings.NewReader(data)

    var resp depthResponse
    if err := json.NewDecoder(r).Decode(&resp); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("We should end up here: %v", err)
    }

    fmt.Printf("%+v
", resp)
}