diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e7d63ba..dcec3bb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -783,13 +783,13 @@ require 'vendor/autoload.php';
 
 use JiraRestApi\Issue\IssueService;
 use JiraRestApi\Issue\IssueFieldV3;
+use JiraRestApi\Issue\DescriptionV3;
 use JiraRestApi\JiraException;
 
 try {
     $issueField = new IssueFieldV3();
 
     $paraDesc =<<< DESC
-
 Full description for issue
 - order list 1
 - order list 2
@@ -797,18 +797,15 @@ Full description for issue
 -- sub order list 1
 - order list 3 
 DESC;
-    
-    $issueField->setProjectKey('TEST')
-                ->setSummary('something's wrong')
+            $descV3 = new DescriptionV3();
+            $descV3->addDescriptionContent('paragraph', $paraDesc);
+
+            $issueField->setProjectKey('TEST')
+                ->setSummary("something's wrong")
                 ->setAssigneeAccountId('user-account-id-here')
                 ->setPriorityNameAsString('Critical')
                 ->setIssueTypeAsString('Bug')
-                ->addDescriptionHeading(3, 'level 3 heading here')
-                ->addDescriptionParagraph($paraDesc)
-                ->addVersion(['1.0.1', '1.0.3'])
-                ->addComponents(['Component-1', 'Component-2'])
-                // set issue security if you need.
-                ->setDueDateAsString('2019-06-19')
+                ->setDescriptionV3($descV3)
             ;
 	
     $issueService = new IssueService();
diff --git a/src/Issue/IssueFieldV3.php b/src/Issue/IssueFieldV3.php
index 100a23b..a3901cc 100644
--- a/src/Issue/IssueFieldV3.php
+++ b/src/Issue/IssueFieldV3.php
@@ -4,20 +4,23 @@
 
 use JiraRestApi\ClassSerialize;
 
+/**
+ * Atlassian Document Format
+ *
+ * @see https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/apis/document/structure/
+ */
 class IssueFieldV3 extends IssueField
 {
     use ClassSerialize;
 
-    /** @var \JiraRestApi\Issue\DescriptionV3|null */
     public ?DescriptionV3 $descriptionV3;
 
-    /** @var \JiraRestApi\Issue\DescriptionV3|null */
     public ?DescriptionV3 $environmentV3;
 
     /**
      * @param \JiraRestApi\Issue\DescriptionV3|null $description
      *
-     * @return $this|IssueField
+     * @return IssueFieldV3
      */
     public function setDescriptionV3(?DescriptionV3 $description): static
     {
@@ -72,4 +75,19 @@ public function setEnvironment(?DescriptionV3 $environment): static
 
         return $this;
     }
+
+    #[\ReturnTypeWillChange]
+    public function jsonSerialize()
+    {
+        $params = array_filter(get_object_vars($this), function ($var) {
+            return !is_null($var);
+        });
+
+        if ($this->descriptionV3 != null) {
+            $params['description'] = $this->descriptionV3;
+            unset($params['descriptionV3']);
+        }
+
+        return $params;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Issue/IssueService.php b/src/Issue/IssueService.php
index 4c981da..688d9b9 100644
--- a/src/Issue/IssueService.php
+++ b/src/Issue/IssueService.php
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ public function get($issueIdOrKey, $paramArray = [], $issueObject = null): Issue
 
         $ret = $this->exec($this->uri.'/'.$issueIdOrKey.$this->toHttpQueryParameter($paramArray), null);
 
+        // very ugly workaround for avoiding below error.
+        // JSON property "description" in class "JiraRestApi\Issue\IssueFieldV3" is an object and cannot be converted to a string
+        // @see https://github.com/lesstif/php-jira-rest-client/issues/457
+        if ($this->isRestApiV3()) {
+            $ret = str_replace('description', 'descriptionv3', $ret);
+        }
+
         $this->log->info("Result=\n".$ret);
 
         return $issue = $this->json_mapper->map(