For my needs, I customized the wp rest posts callback:
function get_all_posts( $data, $post, $context ) {
return [
'id' => $data->data['id'],
'date' => $data->data['date'],
'date_gmt' => $data->data['date_gmt'],
'modified' => $data->data['modified'],
'title' => $data->data['title']['rendered'],
'content' => $data->data['content']['rendered'],
'excerpt' => $data->data['excerpt']['rendered'],
'category' => get_the_category_by_ID( $data->data['categories'][0] ),
'link' => $data->data['link'],
];
}
add_filter( 'rest_prepare_post', 'get_all_posts', 10, 3 );
Category endpoint returns directly the name of the post category.