{"id":1948,"date":"2007-08-14T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/rest-as-a-long-bet\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T12:40:20","slug":"rest-as-a-long-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/rest-as-a-long-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"REST as a long bet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/snellspace.com\/wp\/?p=729\">with James<\/a> in his response to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/12\/Long-Bets\">Sam&#8217;s long bets<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/snellspace.com\/wp\/?p=729\">\nTo say, as Sam and Tim both do, that REST is important is like saying the fan in my laptop is \u201cimportant\u201d. There\u2019s really nothing to discuss about it. RESTful services are fundamentally critical to the continued evolution of the Web. It just is. You just need to do things in a RESTful way. Period.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>REST is just a starting point.  What&#8217;s more important going forward is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/software_arch.htm\">framework<\/a> which permits us to reason about REST extensions and other changes to the Web (or portions thereof).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have to say, I&#8217;m with James in his response to Sam&#8217;s long bets; To say, as Sam and Tim both do, that REST is important is like saying the fan in my laptop is \u201cimportant\u201d. There\u2019s really nothing to discuss about it. RESTful services are fundamentally critical to the continued evolution of the Web. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,22,48,35,37],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-rest","tag-softarch","tag-web","tag-webarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}