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While I don't support what GP is advocating, JSON based apis are often horrible. Apis that return a list of objects or an object based on having >1 or 1 result are just horrifying, and that's just the start of how badly JSON gets abused.


I don't disagree that many JSON APIs are poorly designed.




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