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What are RESTful APIs and JSON?

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What are RESTful APIs and JSON?

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- [Instructor] Working with REST APIs, we use a lot of specialized terminology and acronyms, like REST, and API and JSON. And knowing what these mean and what they describe makes it easier to understand what's going on. So, let's break some of these down right here at the top of the course. WordPress ships with what's known as a RESTful API, and in this course, we'll explore how to work with this API to receive and send data through WordPress. But what exactly is a REST API, and what makes it RESTful? The term is a combination of two acronyms: REST and API. REST stands for representational state transfer, which describes the software architecture of the web. Anytime you visit a URL, the server or service transfers representation of the current state of whatever is at the other end of that URL. The data at the other end of the URL is called a resource. We perform operations on that resource using verbs like Get to get the…

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