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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _get_json_obj(self, endpoint, query, is_post=False):
 """ Return False if connection could not be made. Otherwise, return a response object from JSON. """

        response = self._get_response(endpoint, query, is_post=is_post)
        content = response.text
        try:
            return loads(content)
        except ValueError:
            raise Exception('Could not decode content to JSON:\n%s'
                            % self.__class__.__name__, content)