Dictum vs Quotes on Design

Dictum was a small quotes API whose GitHub README now states the project migrated to quoterism.com, a still-actively-run quotes-and-authors API with author images. A live GET against the real gateway, www.quoterism.com/api/quotes/random, returned a genuine 401 "API key required" JSON error with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no and correcting auth None -> API Key in the same probe; a docsUrl was added for the live quoterism.com/developer page (found via the GitHub README's migration notice), distinct from the archived GitHub repo kept as url. The developer page asks only for optional donations to "keep the API free and running," with no paid tier found — pricingModel free.

Quotes on Design is a WordPress site publishing curated design-inspiration quotes, whose standard WP-JSON REST endpoints (quotesondesign.com/wp-json/) expose the full post archive as read-only JSON. A live GET against wp-json/wp/v2/posts returned a genuine paginated post list while echoing Access-Control-Allow-Origin back to the sent Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> yes; no key was required, reconfirming auth None. A fully free WordPress content API — pricingModel free.