function callGithubRepo(callback) {

  $.ajax({

    dataType: "json",

    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/1',

    success: callback

  });

}

​

function onSuccess(data) {

  console.log("The first issue on jquery is from: " + data.user.login);

  console.log("and its state is: " + data.state);

}

​

console.log("We will call the github api for the jquery repo...");

callGithubRepo(onSuccess);

console.log("The call is asynchronous...");