Could have been an issue at my provider…

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.10centuries.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /content/blurbs/global?since_unix=1473008996 (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f589a1053c8>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))