getAttendance() {
const username = 'foo';
const password = 'bar';
const auth = btoa(username + ':' + password);
$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: 'somelink',
    contentType: 'application/json, charset=utf-8',
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    async: true,
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Basic ' + btoa(username + ':' + password)
    },
    error: function(xhr, status, error){
      console.log(error);
    },
    success: function(data){
      console.log(data);
      const req = JSON.stringify(data);
      const newreq = req.split('[');
      const res = newreq[1];
      const newres = res.split(']');
      const newnewres = newres[0];
      const response = '[' + newnewres + ']';

      //return the response variable
    }
  });
}