Revert "Merge pull reqest #9 making api take longs since they will end up just being strings. Testing against dogstatsd shows that it can parse longs"

This merge reverted some changes. The conflict resolution of the merge was not good

This reverts commit 05c92a9c98d56f90849a00408e7fc92f64a1d58b, reversing
changes made to 3c943641237abdb4a8582647469d48a7a361cec7.