docs: def get(self, url):
          """Perform a GET request to the given resource with the given URL.  The
          "url" argument will be joined to the base URL this object was
          initialized with.
  
          :param string url: the URL resource to hit
          :rtype: requests.Response object"""
  
          to_hit = urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, url)
          resp = self.pool.get(to_hit, auth=self.auth)
          return resp