so i did find a hack workaround for this.
in this file: wp-content/plugins/json-api/controllers/core.php
around line: 231, in the array arguments, you want to add this:
‘numberposts’ => ’10’
so mine now looks like:
$wp_posts = get_posts(array(
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_parent' => 0,
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'menu_order',
'numberposts' => '10'
));
i suppose i could make this a little better by using doing:
extract($json_api->query->get('number'));
so you could then do:
'numberofposts' => $number
and you just simply pass the number of pages you want returned.
again, not great… i just wish for posts of type ‘page’ would just return them all based on their published status. i may continue to look into that.