Urequests can't parse response data

I'm trying to talk to my nanoleaf over my ESP8266 board. I'm using micropython and the urequests library I installed using upip.install('urequests').

urequests.get works and I can parse the response from something like: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

However when I try to parse the response from my nanoleaf with reponse.text the call just stops. I'm testing it over the UART REPL and it just does nothing until I ctrl+c then get a keyboard interrupt:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "urequests.py", line 57, in text
  File "urequests.py", line 49, in content
KeyboardInterrupt:

Using normal python on my x86 and requests with the same line works.

I'm using:

response = urequests.get(url)
response.text

Curl returns this from the nanoleaf:

{"on":{"value":true},"brightness":{"value":76,"max":100,"min":0},"hue":{"value":28,"max":360,"min":0},"sat":{"value":66,"max":100,"min":0},"ct":{"value":2700,"max":6500,"min":1200},"colorMode":"effect"}

Is that a memory issue? I'm not even trying to get the json, just the text result.

Start with urequests.py at the content and text entry points cited in the traceback, then reproduce response.text using the Nanoleaf response and the working JSONPlaceholder response. Determine why reading the Nanoleaf response does not return; the issue is resolved when the response can be read successfully without a keyboard interrupt.