There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...
If you want something other than puns... as an old timer... I still think REST is a cute idea- it can provide a quite intuitive, nearly self-documenting API, which is relatively easy to interop with ...
APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.