title: Wordpress REST API Slow Response time
body: <p>I have an issue with the speed of the WordPress REST API. What I’m trying to do is get data for a report about 26k records in total as fast as possible to give the user a fluid user experience. The issue I’m running into is it seems that WordPress loads core, plugins and themes when the REST API is called.</p>
  
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  <p>I’ve run out of ways I know to optimize the code, is there some WordPress tweaks anyone knows to improve the speed? Are these results normal for people using the REST API? As you can see the time to run my code isn't the issue but the WordPress overhead is.</p>