I used Wordpress as the development framework for a mobile application project. Wordpress has a set of XMLPRC api for a very long time. Moreover, the mainstream in Mobile development is to use JSON as the communication format, rather than XML. JSON is smaller and easier to deserialize back to an object. Originally, I planned to use a third party plug-in for REST API and with my own code to build my own version REST API for my mobile application. Today, I checked my WordPress; It got an update for WordPress 4.7. After the updates, I found this version finally got an official REST API. That is great. I can build my code on top of that!
You can check this demo from Wordpress