WP Rest API: Can't seem to get embedded data from the post object

Question

I am working with the WORDPRESS REST API and Wordpress version 4.8 for an internal network page at a local office. We have permalinks disabled (security reasons) and thus I am accessing the posts object like so:

https://url/blogs/usernamehere/?rest_route=/wp/v2/posts/12345

I am able to do a GET request and can get the posts data into my view template with no issues. However, I can't seem to figure out how to consume additional content in the post object . I have followed the documentation and tried to do:

https://url/blogs/usernamehere/?rest_route=/wp/v2/posts/12345?_embed=true

But, I get a STATUS 404 .

How would I correctly apply the embed function in the URL so I can get the additional data associated with the post?

Answer 1

Pass the _embed global parameter without a value, per the documentation.

Answer 2

you should do this:

https://url/blogs/usernamehere/?_embed=true&rest_route=/wp/v2/posts/12345

Basically you add _embed=true at before other parameters and after & add other parameters.