title: What are REST resources?
body: <p>What are REST resources and how do they relate to resource names and resource representations?</p>
  
  <p>I read a few articles on the subject, but they were too abstract and they left me more confused than I was before.</p>
  
  <p>Is the following URL a resource? If it is, what is the name of that resource and what is its representation?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://api.example.com/users.json?length=2&amp;offset=5" rel="noreferrer">http://api.example.com/users.json?length=2&amp;offset=5</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The GET response of the URL should look something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[
     {
        id: 6,
        name: "John"
     },
     {
        id: 7,
        name: "Jane"
     }
  ]
  </code></pre>