If you must, serve up the authors as an array that is a sibling of the posts array. So if you have 100 posts written by only 3 authors, you have: { post

If you must, serve up the authors as an array that is a sibling of the posts array. So if you have 100 posts written by only 3 authors, you have: { posts: [ /* 100 records */ ], authors: [ /* 3 records */ ] } Each post references the author by ID only and all required data is sent in one API call.