I think you misinterpreted the parent post. You two are almost certainly talking about the same kind of REST aka the mainstream understanding of it popularized by APIs like Twitter, Twilio, Stripe, etc. The "real/pure REST" folks are talking about by-the-dissertion Fielding's REST which is far more complicated and confusing and is probably not a good idea for a public API. It goes beyond verbs and pretty URLs. Look into Hypermedia APIs. That's the One True REST.