{"id":291,"date":"2007-06-22T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=291"},"modified":"2007-06-22T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T18:38:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"All about APIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Application Program Interface<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Practically, an API is any interface that enables one program to use facilities provided by another<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check these sites for great APIs and some good tutorials:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nate.koechley.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/beautiful-api\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nate.koechley.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/beautiful-api\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/services\/api\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/services\/api\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.programmableweb.com\/apis\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.programmableweb.com\/apis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Program Interface A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications Practically, an API is any interface that enables one program to use facilities provided by another A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks Check these sites for great APIs and some good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}