How to ignore javascript/json encoding of + sign?

short · May 25, 2020, 8:07am

In my single.html i have

<script type="application/ld+json">

Dan + Shay becomes

"name": "Dan \x2b Shay"

very frustrating. I want to keep it “Dan + Shay”

How do i fix this?

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