title: Wordpress - site_url() returns with additional backslashes
body: <p>I am using <code>site_url()</code> function and it returns the address as <code>http:\/\/vip.local\/cc</code> where I can see that WP automatically adds unnecessary backslashes. Is this for some escaping purpose? I tried using <code>stripslashes</code> function but that didn't fix it either. Any help?</p>