{"id":1943,"date":"2007-06-13T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/nouns-verbs-oh-my\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:43:12","slug":"nouns-verbs-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/06\/nouns-verbs-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Nouns, verbs, oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see Pat Helland <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pathelland\/archive\/2007\/06\/12\/every-noun-can-be-verbed.aspx\">join the REST\/SOA conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>His first post is in a rather quisical, loose style that I hadn&#8217;t seen before, but that&#8217;s ok, I think I get what he&#8217;s talking about.  The point seems to be summed up here;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pathelland\/archive\/2007\/06\/12\/every-noun-can-be-verbed.aspx\">\nIs the purchase-order (or even the line-item) a noun or a verb?  I would argue is it syntactically a noun but semantically a verb.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Hmm.  I&#8217;m quite certain it&#8217;s pure noun.  If it were a verb, then it would only have a single-purpose &#8211; to order something &#8211; and wouldn&#8217;t be able to be archived, printed, translated, etc&#8230; which it clearly can.  Obviously a message can only have <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/www-ws-arch\/2002Mar\/0287.html\">one authoritative application-level verb<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re using HTTP, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Protocols\/rfc2616\/rfc2616-sec5.html#sec5.1.1\">request method<\/a> is it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s nice to see Pat Helland join the REST\/SOA conversation. His first post is in a rather quisical, loose style that I hadn&#8217;t seen before, but that&#8217;s ok, I think I get what he&#8217;s talking about. The point seems to be summed up here; Is the purchase-order (or even the line-item) a noun or a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,48,35,37],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest","tag-softarch","tag-web","tag-webarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","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=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}