{"id":10,"date":"2002-07-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-12T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=62"},"modified":"2002-07-12T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-12T13:45:00","slug":"bad-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2002\/07\/bad-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad Sam Ruby is <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0101679\/2002\/07\/12.html#a638\">contributing<\/a> to the SOAP\/REST discussion.  As a leader in the Web services space, his word goes a long way.  I&#8217;m looking forward to reading his article.<\/p>\n\n<p>As for &#8220;bad advocacy&#8221;, I don&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m an advocate for REST, at least in the REST\/SOAP discussions.  I see myself as more of a soothsayer, trying to warn people that the current approach to Web services <em>cannot<\/em> do what people hope it can do; namely, work on the Internet.  But my hope is that the industry understands this soon, because I&#8217;d prefer to see it put resources into more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/sw\/\">fruitful endeavours<\/a> rather than spending them repeating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omg.org\">past mistakes<\/a>.  But if they don&#8217;t, then they&#8217;ll just have to learn the hard way.<\/p>\n\n<p>Curmudgeonly yours.  8-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m glad Sam Ruby is contributing to the SOAP\/REST discussion. As a leader in the Web services space, his word goes a long way. I&#8217;m looking forward to reading his article. As for &#8220;bad advocacy&#8221;, I don&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m an advocate for REST, at least in the REST\/SOAP discussions. I see myself as more [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}