'Make a request and return the JSON'

def _get_json(self, url):

    results = []
    ret = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(self.cloudforms_username, self.cloudforms_pw), verify=self.cloudforms_ssl_verify)
    ret.raise_for_status()
    try:
        results = json.loads(ret.text)
    except ValueError:
        warnings.warn('Unexpected    response    from    {0}    ({1}):    {2}'.format(self.cloudforms_url, ret.status_code, ret.reason))
        results = {}
    if self.args.debug:
        print('=======================================================================')
        print('=======================================================================')
        print('=======================================================================')
        print(ret.text)
        print('=======================================================================')
        print('=======================================================================')
        print('=======================================================================')
    return results
