title: Json string gets escaped in web-api
body: <p>we have JSON configuration data stored in a database. i need to fetch this JSON data and return it, as it is, to the browser via asp.net web-api:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class ConfigurationController : ApiController
  {
      public string Get(string configId)
      {
          // Get json from database
          // when i return the fetched json it get's escaped
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The value that i return gets escaped. how do i simply return the string as it is? I really don't want to populate an object that gets serialized to JSON.</p>