title: WP Rest API vs - how can I get author information from v2 - the author ID?
body: <p>I'm building a front end using WP JSON, and I need (among other things) the name of the author of each post. </p>
  
  <p>In V1, this was easy - here's a fragment of a typical post object from calling <a href="http://example.com/wp-json/posts/1" rel="noreferrer">http://example.com/wp-json/posts/1</a>:</p>
  
  <pre><code> {
      "ID": 1,
      "title": "Hello world!",
      "status": "publish",
      "type": "post",
      "author": {
          "ID": 1,
          "name": "admin",
          "slug": "admin",
          "URL": "",
          "avatar": "http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c57c8945079831fa3c19caef02e44614&amp;d=404&amp;r=G",
          "meta": {
              "links": {
                  "self": "http:\/\/example.com\/wp-json\/users\/1",
                  "archives": "http:\/\/example.com\/wp-json\/users\/1\/posts"
              }
          }
      },
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But in V2, for author, all we get back is the ID (an integer). Passing this back to the API, we get a list of every article an author has written - but how can I get the author's information - their name, avatar, etc.?</p>
  
  <p>PS: boy the V2 documentation is sparse...V1 was much better...</p>