diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v0/guidance_groups_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v0/guidance_groups_controller.rb
index ce2ac72..65899b9 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/v0/guidance_groups_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v0/guidance_groups_controller.rb
@@ -4,12 +4,6 @@
       before_action :authenticate
       #after_action :verify_authorized
 
-      def show
-        @guidance_group = GuidanceGroup.find(params[:id])
-        raise Pundit::NotAuthorizedError unless Api::V0::GuidanceGroupPolicy.new(@user, @guidance_group).show?
-        respond_with @guidance_group
-      end
-
       def index
         raise Pundit::NotAuthorizedError unless Api::V0::GuidanceGroupPolicy.new(@user, :guidance_group).index?
         @all_viewable_groups = GuidanceGroup.all_viewable(@user)
diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v0/guidances_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v0/guidances_controller.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index b6866d2..0000000
--- a/app/controllers/api/v0/guidances_controller.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-module Api
-  module V0
-    class GuidancesController < Api::V0::BaseController
-      before_action :authenticate
-      #after_action :verify_authorized
-
-      ##
-      # returns the specified guidance
-      def show
-        @guidance = Guidance.find(params[:id])
-        raise Pundit::NotAuthorizedError unless Api::V0::GuidancePolicy.new(@user, @guidance).show?
-        respond_with get_resource
-      end
-
-      ##
-      # returns all guidances viewable to a user
-      def index
-        authorize Guidance
-        raise Pundit::NotAuthorizedError unless Api::V0::GuidancePolicy.new(@user, :guidance).index?
-        respond_with @all_viewable_guidances
-      end
-
-      ##
-      # defines the default pundit user (overwrites current_user)
-      def pundit_user
-        @user
-      end
-
-
-      private
-        def query_params
-          params.permit(:id)
-        end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/app/views/api/v0/guidance_groups/show.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v0/guidance_groups/show.json.jbuilder
deleted file mode 100644
index d1b0a2e..0000000
--- a/app/views/api/v0/guidance_groups/show.json.jbuilder
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-# builds a json response to api query for a list of guidance groups
-json.prettify!
-
-json.guidance_group do
-  json.name       @guidance_group.name
-  json.id         @guidance_group.id
-
-  json.guidances @guidance_group.guidances do |guidance|
-    json.text guidance.text
-    json.id   guidance.id
-  end
-  json.optional   @guidance_group.optional_subset
-  json.updated    @guidance_group.updated_at
-end
diff --git a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v0/guidances/index.json.jbuilder
deleted file mode 100644
index ac98f0a..0000000
--- a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/index.json.jbuilder
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# builds a json response to api querry for all guidances
-
-json.prettify!
-
-json.guidance @all_viewable_guidances do |guidance|
-  json.id     guidance.id
-  json.text   guidance.text
-  json.updated_at   guidance.updated_at
-
-  # each guidance may be associated with many guidance groups
-  guidance_group = guidance.guidance_group
-  unless guidance_group.nil?
-    json.guidance_group do
-      json.name       guidance_group.name
-      json.id         guidance_group.id
-
-      json.optional   guidance_group.optional_subset
-      json.updated    guidance_group.updated_at
-    end
-  end
-
-end
diff --git a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/show.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v0/guidances/show.json.jbuilder
deleted file mode 100644
index 67d3385..0000000
--- a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/show.json.jbuilder
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# builds a json response to api querry for a specific guidance
-
-json.prettify!
-
-json.guidance do
-  json.id     @guidance.id
-  json.text   @guidance.text
-  json.updated_at   @guidance.updated_at
-
-  # each guidance may be associated with one guidance group
-  guidance_group = @guidance.guidance_group
-
-  unless guidance_group.nil?
-    json.guidance_group do
-      json.name       guidance_group.name
-      json.id         guidance_group.id
-
-      json.optional   guidance_group.optional_subset
-      json.updated    guidance_group.updated_at
-    end
-  end
-end
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