Thanks @reardestani but this doesn’t solve my question.
I am already doing what you suggested above; however I would like the array of the entire field group; not each item.
That is, in your example above when I do
$description = get_field_object('field_name');
print_r('$description');
I see this as one of the items in the array [field_group]=>xxx
I want to be able to loop through an array of all items in that field group and output named pair values