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

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.