{"id":10019,"date":"2014-01-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2933145"},"modified":"2014-01-20T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:00:00","slug":"apis-move-beyond-just-web-apis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/apis-move-beyond-just-web-apis\/","title":{"rendered":"APIs Move Beyond Just &#8216;Web APIs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, when I would talk about &#8220;APIs&#8221;, I would qualify it by saying &#8220;Web APIs&#8221;, in order to distinguish from the older meaning of APIs as more the tightly-coupled APIs used in Java, C\/C++, or even Visual Basic. If you just said &#8220;APIs&#8221;, until recently, some people may think you mean APIs like the Windows API (I can remember Charles Petzold&#8217;s excellent Windows API book was on my desk back when I was a programmer at an EDI VAN in the 90s).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2933145\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, when I would talk about &#8220;APIs&#8221;, I would qualify it by saying &#8220;Web APIs&#8221;, in order to distinguish from the older meaning of APIs as more the tightly-coupled APIs used in Java, C\/C++, or even Visual Basic. If you just said &#8220;APIs&#8221;, until r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}