Referenced issue: slug field is saved HTML-encoded WP-API/WP-API#2243, others are not. This can be counterintuitive and should be called out in the documentation.
Broadening the issue to capture documenting how slugs work more broadly, following WP-API/WP-API#2712 where confusion arose from the fact they are not set by WP until a post is published
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slug
field is saved HTML-encoded WP-API/WP-API#2243, others are not. This can be counterintuitive and should be called out in the documentation.