What's a Post? (Discourse API question)

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The difference between Topics and posts in Discourse

Inspired by this answer by @jomaxro, this is a short explainer on the difference between topics and posts in Discourse. Topics are collections of posts. Let’s use a random topic here on Meta as an example: That topic has a title, “Don’t warn whisperers”, and ID, 199028 , and contains 5 posts at the time of writing this howto. Posts are the individual “content” within a topic. This includes the “OP”, or original post, that is created at the same time as the topic. As a point of note, a topi…