GET web api method from a WordPress PHP script

wp_remote_get was causing the issue and switch over to a curl solution.

The code below replaced my old solution:

$serverIP = 'x.x.x.x';
$serviceAPI = '/Get_VacationRequest';

$jsonData = urlencode(json_encode($_REQUEST));

// Set up the server information where we will consume the API
$url="http://" . $serverIP . $serviceAPI . '?name=" . $jsonData;  

// Start the curl session
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 

// Send the request & save response to $resp
$resp = curl_exec($curl);

// Close request to clear up some resources
curl_close($curl);