2nd U.S. man connected to illegal hunting. By Michael Pearson and David McKenzie, CNN. Three days after demanding the extradition of a Minnesota dentist in connection with the killing of an iconic lion in Zimbabwe, the country has named another American in connection with an allegedly illegal hunt.
The Cisco NX-API is nothing else than a HTTP/HTTPs endpoint, where you can drop commands in a HTTP/HTTPs post request and get a response back, which contains structured or unstructured data in the JSON or XML data format.
API stands for Application Programming Interface, i.e. API is the way for an application to interact with certain system/application/library/etc. For example, there are API's for OS (WinAPI), API's for other applications (like databases) and for specific libraries (for example, image processing), etc.