{"id":171,"date":"2004-08-06T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/rest-is-a-webpage-of-xml\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T18:01:07","slug":"rest-is-a-webpage-of-xml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/rest-is-a-webpage-of-xml\/","title":{"rendered":"REST is a webpage of XML"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everytime I read an article about <A HREF=\"http:\/\/webservices.xml.com\/pub\/a\/ws\/2002\/02\/20\/rest.html\">REST interfaces<\/A>, they go into this long diabtribe about what REST isn&#8217;t and how it compares to SOAP and XML-RPC. None of them spend any time actually describing what REST. Maybe it&#8217;s because it so simple. It&#8217;s a URL that returns XML. That&#8217;s it. <\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/rest.xml\">http:\/\/boulter.com\/rest.xml<\/A><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just like every web page you&#8217;ve browsed in your life except the stuff returned is for computers, not humans.  Just like regular web pages, parameters on the URL may change the data returned, possibly changing my witty comment in this example.<\/p>\n<p>If the whole point of REST is to simplify things, why can&#8217;t people explain it simply?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everytime I read an article about REST interfaces, they go into this long diabtribe about what REST isn&#8217;t and how it compares to SOAP and XML-RPC. None of them spend any time actually describing what REST. Maybe it&#8217;s because it so simple. It&#8217;s a URL that returns XML. That&#8217;s it. Like this: http:\/\/boulter.com\/rest.xml It&#8217;s just &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/rest-is-a-webpage-of-xml\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;REST is a webpage of XML&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}