title: Bash: A multiword variable breaking curl
body: <p>I am having a small problem with in bash. </p>
  
  <p>I have this rather ugly line</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -u "$USER:$PASS" --request POST --data '{"title": "'$BRANCH_NAME'", "body": "'$DESCRIPTION'", "head": "'$OWNER':'$BRANCH_NAME'", "base": "develop"}' https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO_NAME/pulls
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  <p>Where most of these variables are single words the $DESCRIPTION can be more than one but it seems that it breaks the line. </p>
  
  <p>Is there some way to make $DESCRIPTION not break the curl command when it has more than one word in it?</p>