diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 0e5bc37..ee3c356 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 jtbl changelog
 
+20230114 v1.5.0
+- Be more tolerant of loading JSON Lines with blank lines and whitespace
+
 20221006 v1.4.0
 - Add CSV (`-c`) table output option
 - Add HTML (`-H`) table output option
diff --git a/jtbl/cli.py b/jtbl/cli.py
index ec5ed41..5d47c6b 100644
--- a/jtbl/cli.py
+++ b/jtbl/cli.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import tabulate
 import shutil
 
-__version__ = '1.4.0'
+__version__ = '1.5.0'
 SUCCESS, ERROR = True, False
 
 
@@ -137,8 +137,9 @@ def get_json(json_data, columns=None):
         data_list = []
         for i, jsonline in enumerate(data):
             try:
-                entry = json.loads(jsonline)
-                data_list.append(entry)
+                if jsonline.strip():
+                    entry = json.loads(jsonline)
+                    data_list.append(entry)
             except Exception as e:
                 # can't parse the data. Throw a nice message and quit
                 return (ERROR, textwrap.dedent(f'''\
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 57c25ac..b45ff9c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='jtbl',
-    version='1.4.0',
+    version='1.5.0',
     author='Kelly Brazil',
     author_email='kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com',
     description='A simple cli tool to print JSON and JSON Lines data as a table in the terminal.',