{"id":4087,"date":"2012-10-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2393093"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:00:00","slug":"the-power-of-opacity-in-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-power-of-opacity-in-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Opacity in REST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally, the client has no way of knowing anything at all about what\u2019s really going on behind the scenes. The resource might be a file, a script, a container, an object, or some complicated combination of these and other kinds of things. There are two important lessons for the techies behind the curtain: first, don\u2019t assume resources come in one flavor, and second, it\u2019s important to understand the full breadth of capabilities and patterns that you can leverage when architecting or building resources. After all, anything you can give a URI to can be a resource. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2393093\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamentally, the client has no way of knowing anything at all about what\u2019s really going on behind the scenes. The resource might be a file, a script, a container, an object, or some complicated combination of these and other kinds of things. There &#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-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","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=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}