public static function get($item)
    {
        //convert the item requested to upper, just in case.
        $item = strtoupper($item);

        //get all config items as an associative array from the JSON file
        $config = json_decode(file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . "/Config.json"), true);

        //if the requested config item doesn't exist, throw Twitter\Config\Exceptions\InvalidConfigItemException
        if( !isset($config[$item]) )
        {
            throw new InvalidConfigItemException("Invalid Endpoint Requested!");
        }

        //return the requested item
        return $config[$item];
    }