Helper function for making requests
        :param suburl: The suburl to query
        :return: Decoded json object

def _make_request(self, suburl):
        """
        Helper function for making requests
        :param suburl: The suburl to query
        :return: Decoded json object
        """
        url = "{}/{}".format(self.API_BASE_URL, suburl)
        response = self.session.get(url)
        response.raise_for_status()
        return response.json()