title: Interacting with a REST API from Clojure
body: <p>What would be the suggested way to send and receive requests to an external REST API without having to run a web server? I can't seem to find anything about making requests and parsing the resulting JSON. The only thing I have found so far is just the json parsing stuff (using the Cheshire library).</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>