So HATEOS is a requirement of REST? I've been calling my JSON apis RESTful all this time like a fool. Guess they're simply JSON apis. I don't really care to pa

So HATEOS is a requirement of REST? I've been calling my JSON apis RESTful all this time like a fool. Guess they're simply JSON apis. I don't really care to parse XML so I guess I won't be getting any REST from my apps.