Lots of tweaks to try and make people's issues easier to debug

commit ebc0f6c2790891c605de5e4143025a33ecf69bdb
Author: Mike Harris <mharris717@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 9 13:00:16 2014 -0500

    use isBlank

commit 45d7871bfaada4aef0498053f5ed82e186ff398b
Author: Mike Harris <mharris717@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 9 12:52:15 2014 -0500

    add couple addl errors

commit e11990f7f5307df79d60a857afa6047bfd8736e4
Author: Mike Harris <mharris717@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 9 12:44:04 2014 -0500

    added Validate

commit e1618aead0b722fb059bb9e51b4978ff57aec9e7
Author: Mike Harris <mharris717@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 5 15:44:15 2014 -0500

    add getInt that throws exception if bad int, add validation of response meta, couple other tweaks