title: React app rendering html entities such as ampersand as escaped
body: <p>I have a React app embedded in Wordpress page. It  pulls content from a JSON api and displays it in various areas. </p>
  
  <p>My problem is that all of the text content that comes from the api displays as escaped charachters i.e <code>&amp;#038;</code> displays where an ampersand should be. </p>
  
  <p>My wordpress page has <code>&lt;meta charSet="utf-8" /&gt;</code> which I would normally expect to convert this, but is having no effecton the React content. Is it because the rendering is done within React? In which case do I need to set React somehow to be using UTF-8?</p>