diff --git a/src/client/updaters/tag.js b/src/client/updaters/tag.js
index d51533f6..c4635e26 100644
--- a/src/client/updaters/tag.js
+++ b/src/client/updaters/tag.js
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ export default function updateTag (appId, options = {}, type, tags, head, body)
           continue
         }
 
+        if (attr === 'json') {
+          newElement.innerHTML = JSON.stringify(tag.json)
+          continue
+        }
+
         if (attr === 'cssText') {
           if (newElement.styleSheet) {
             /* istanbul ignore next */
diff --git a/src/server/generators/tag.js b/src/server/generators/tag.js
index fcb315da..f92ed1db 100644
--- a/src/server/generators/tag.js
+++ b/src/server/generators/tag.js
@@ -62,8 +62,13 @@ export default function tagGenerator ({ ssrAppId, attribute, tagIDKeyName } = {}
           attrs += ` ${prefix}${attr}` + (isBooleanAttr ? '' : `="${tag[attr]}"`)
         }
 
+        let json = ''
+        if (tag.json) {
+          json = JSON.stringify(tag.json)
+        }
+
         // grab child content from one of these attributes, if possible
-        const content = tag.innerHTML || tag.cssText || ''
+        const content = tag.innerHTML || tag.cssText || json
 
         // generate tag exactly without any other redundant attribute
 
diff --git a/src/shared/constants.js b/src/shared/constants.js
index a347b246..abb59503 100644
--- a/src/shared/constants.js
+++ b/src/shared/constants.js
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export const tagsWithoutEndTag = ['base', 'meta', 'link']
 export const tagsWithInnerContent = ['noscript', 'script', 'style']
 
 // Attributes which are inserted as childNodes instead of HTMLAttribute
-export const tagAttributeAsInnerContent = ['innerHTML', 'cssText']
+export const tagAttributeAsInnerContent = ['innerHTML', 'cssText', 'json']
 
 // Attributes which should be added with data- prefix
 export const commonDataAttributes = ['body', 'pbody']
diff --git a/src/shared/escaping.js b/src/shared/escaping.js
index 8f9b123b..9afd6770 100644
--- a/src/shared/escaping.js
+++ b/src/shared/escaping.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export const clientSequences = [
 // sanitizes potentially dangerous characters
 export function escape (info, options, escapeOptions) {
   const { tagIDKeyName } = options
-  const { doEscape = v => v } = escapeOptions
+  const { doEscape = v => v, escapeKeys } = escapeOptions
   const escaped = {}
 
   for (const key in info) {
@@ -55,15 +55,25 @@ export function escape (info, options, escapeOptions) {
       escaped[key] = doEscape(value)
     } else if (isArray(value)) {
       escaped[key] = value.map((v) => {
-        return isPureObject(v)
-          ? escape(v, options, escapeOptions)
-          : doEscape(v)
+        if (isPureObject(v)) {
+          return escape(v, options, { ...escapeOptions, escapeKeys: true })
+        }
+
+        return doEscape(v)
       })
     } else if (isPureObject(value)) {
-      escaped[key] = escape(value, options, escapeOptions)
+      escaped[key] = escape(value, options, { ...escapeOptions, escapeKeys: true })
     } else {
       escaped[key] = value
     }
+
+    if (escapeKeys) {
+      const escapedKey = doEscape(key)
+      if (key !== escapedKey) {
+        escaped[escapedKey] = escaped[key]
+        delete escaped[key]
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   return escaped
diff --git a/test/unit/escaping.test.js b/test/unit/escaping.test.js
index e4775a72..aff3fef3 100644
--- a/test/unit/escaping.test.js
+++ b/test/unit/escaping.test.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import _getMetaInfo from '../../src/shared/getMetaInfo'
 import { loadVueMetaPlugin } from '../utils'
 import { defaultOptions } from '../../src/shared/constants'
+import { serverSequences } from '../../src/shared/escaping'
 
 const getMetaInfo = (component, escapeSequences) => _getMetaInfo(defaultOptions, component, escapeSequences)
 
@@ -96,4 +97,43 @@ describe('escaping', () => {
       __dangerouslyDisableSanitizersByTagID: { noscape: ['innerHTML'] }
     })
   })
+
+  test('json is still safely escaped', () => {
+    const component = new Vue({
+      metaInfo: {
+        script: [
+          {
+            json: {
+              perfectlySave: '</script><p class="unsafe">This is safe</p><script>',
+              '</script>unsafeKey': 'This is also still safe'
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    })
+
+    expect(getMetaInfo(component, serverSequences)).toEqual({
+      title: undefined,
+      titleChunk: '',
+      titleTemplate: '%s',
+      htmlAttrs: {},
+      headAttrs: {},
+      bodyAttrs: {},
+      meta: [],
+      base: [],
+      link: [],
+      style: [],
+      script: [
+        {
+          json: {
+            perfectlySave: '&lt;/script&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;unsafe&quot;&gt;This is safe&lt;/p&gt;&lt;script&gt;',
+            '&lt;/script&gt;unsafeKey': 'This is also still safe'
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      noscript: [],
+      __dangerouslyDisableSanitizers: [],
+      __dangerouslyDisableSanitizersByTagID: {}
+    })
+  })
 })
diff --git a/test/utils/meta-info-data.js b/test/utils/meta-info-data.js
index 82e42764..a0a65e4f 100644
--- a/test/utils/meta-info-data.js
+++ b/test/utils/meta-info-data.js
@@ -116,12 +116,22 @@ const metaInfoData = {
         { src: 'src1', async: false, defer: true, [defaultOptions.tagIDKeyName]: 'content', callback: () => {} },
         { src: 'src-prepend', async: true, defer: false, pbody: true },
         { src: 'src2', async: false, defer: true, body: true },
-        { src: 'src3', async: false, skip: true }
+        { src: 'src3', async: false, skip: true },
+        { type: 'application/ld+json',
+          json: {
+            '@context': 'http://schema.org',
+            '@type': 'Organization',
+            'name': 'MyApp',
+            'url': 'https://www.myurl.com',
+            'logo': 'https://www.myurl.com/images/logo.png'
+          }
+        }
       ],
       expect: [
         '<script data-vue-meta="ssr" src="src1" defer data-vmid="content" onload="this.__vm_l=1"></script>',
         '<script data-vue-meta="ssr" src="src-prepend" async data-pbody="true"></script>',
-        '<script data-vue-meta="ssr" src="src2" defer data-body="true"></script>'
+        '<script data-vue-meta="ssr" src="src2" defer data-body="true"></script>',
+        '<script data-vue-meta="ssr" type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Organization","name":"MyApp","url":"https://www.myurl.com","logo":"https://www.myurl.com/images/logo.png"}</script>'
       ],
       test (side, defaultTest) {
         return () => {
@@ -139,12 +149,13 @@ const metaInfoData = {
             // ssr doesnt generate data-body tags
             const bodyPrepended = this.expect[1]
             const bodyAppended = this.expect[2]
-            this.expect = [this.expect[0]]
+            this.expect = [this.expect.shift(), this.expect.pop()]
 
             const tags = defaultTest()
+            const html = tags.text()
 
-            expect(tags.text()).not.toContain(bodyPrepended)
-            expect(tags.text()).not.toContain(bodyAppended)
+            expect(html).not.toContain(bodyPrepended)
+            expect(html).not.toContain(bodyAppended)
           }
         }
       }