diff --git a/app/Services/WpContentsClient.php b/app/Services/WpContentsClient.php
index 82c3f73..0e2c71a 100644
--- a/app/Services/WpContentsClient.php
+++ b/app/Services/WpContentsClient.php
@@ -5,13 +5,20 @@ use GuzzleHttp\Client as HTTPClient;
 
 class WpContentsClient
 {
+
     public static function serviceGetBlogItems($apiEndpointsUrl)
     {
         $client = new HTTPClient();
-        $response = $client->request(
-            'GET',
-            "{$apiEndpointsUrl}/wordpress-data"
-        );
+        try {
+            $response = $client->request(
+                'GET',
+                "{$apiEndpointsUrl}/wordpress-data",
+                ['connect_timeout' => 2, 'timeout' => 3, 'debug' => true]
+            );
+        } catch (Exception $e) {
+            // echo "\n".$e->getMessage()."\n";
+            $response= []; // empty array
+        }
         return json_decode($response->getBody());
     }
 }