title: How to prevent wordpress from wrapping my javascript in <p> tags
body: <p>I have a wordpress 3.8.1 site. I want to embed this javascript in a script tag in a page.</p>
  
  <pre><code>var EASTBANKRATE, POLICEANDFIRERATE, WESTBANKRATE, calculateTax, calculateTax_Homestead, calculateTax_NoHomestead;
  
  EASTBANKRATE = 148.77;
  
  WESTBANKRATE = 149.66;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I do so like this: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BFTx.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>But when I click preview changes (or update-->preview changes) wordpress renders this markup: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  var EASTBANKRATE, POLICEANDFIRERATE, WESTBANKRATE, calculateTax, calculateTax_Homestead, calculateTax_NoHomestead;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;EASTBANKRATE = 148.77;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;WESTBANKRATE = 149.66;&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which of course returns an error: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9VN5J.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to queue wordpress not to interpret this javascript as markup? If not, is there any way to add this JS to the page without digging into the wordpress back end?  </p>