diff --git a/linkedin.py b/linkedin.py
index eaf273f..db04298 100644
--- a/linkedin.py
+++ b/linkedin.py
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@
             raise ImportError('A json library is required to use this python library. Lol, yay for being verbose. ;)')
 
 
-class LinkedinAPIError(Exception): pass
+class LinkedinAPIError(Exception):
+
+    def __init__(self, status, message):
+        super(LinkedinAPIError, self).__init__('Error Code: %d, Message: %s' % (status, message))
+        self.status = status
+        self.message = message
+
 class LinkedinAuthError(LinkedinAPIError): pass
 
 
@@ -43,7 +49,7 @@ def __init__(self, api_key=None, api_secret=None, oauth_token=None, oauth_token_
         # Authentication URLs
         self.request_token_url = 'https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/requestToken'
         self.access_token_url = 'https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/accessToken'
-		# Authentication page in http://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication states that 
+		# Authentication page in http://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication states that
 		# endpoint is the following not the previous url used.
         self.authorize_url = 'https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/authenticate'
 
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@ def get_authentication_tokens(self):
 
         status = int(resp['status'])
         if status != 200:
-            raise LinkedinAuthError('There was a problem authenticating you. Error: %s, Message: %s' % (status, content))
+            raise LinkedinAuthError(status, content)
 
         request_tokens = dict(parse_qsl(content))
 
@@ -137,27 +143,24 @@ def api_request(self, endpoint, method='GET', fields='', params={}):
         if fields:
             url = '%s:(%s)' % (url, fields)
 
-        if method == 'POST':
-            resp, content = self.client.request(url, 'POST', body=json.dumps(params), headers=self.headers)
-
-            # As far as I've seen, all POSTs return a 201 and NO body -.-
-            # So, we'll just return true if it's a post and returns 201
-
-            # This will catch a successful post, but continue and throw
-            # an error if it wasn't successful.
-            if 'status' in resp and int(resp['status']) == 201:
-                return True
+        if method == "GET":
+            url = '%s?%s' % (url, urllib.urlencode(params))
+            body = None
         else:
-            resp, content = self.client.request('%s?%s' % (url, urllib.urlencode(params)), 'GET', headers=self.headers)
+            body = json.dumps(params)
 
-        try:
-            content = json.loads(content)
-        except json.JSONDecodeError:
-            raise LinkedinAPIError('Content is not valid JSON, unable to be decoded.')
+        resp, content = self.client.request(url, method, body=body, headers=self.headers)
 
         status = int(resp['status'])
+
+        if content:
+            try:
+                content = json.loads(content)
+            except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                raise LinkedinAPIError(status, 'Content is not valid JSON, unable to be decoded.')
+
         if status < 200 or status >= 300:
-            raise LinkedinAPIError('Error Code: %d, Message: %s' % (status, content['message']))
+            raise LinkedinAPIError(status, content['message'])
 
         return content