Good API is well understood by the other developers. It should be as clear as possible what the API endpoint does when you read the URL from left to right.

If there is a resource that is related to other resource, communicate it via the URL.

Example:

/api/orders/137/order-items

The URL above is communicating that there are orders that have order items. The entities on the left are more important than the entities on the right. The entities on the left usually need to exist before it makes sense for the entities on the right to exist.