I had the same initial feeling as you, along with "why does only 'REST' get scare-quotes?". Then I thought that the article is referring to "REST", meaning an-A

I had the same initial feeling as you, along with "why does only 'REST' get scare-quotes?". Then I thought that the article is referring to "REST", meaning an-API-that-is-vaguely-HTTPish-but-not-actually-RESTful.