cURL to array_map with utf8_encode in PHP - php

Question

I'm using a cURL request to grab data from a website and adding them to properties within a loop later. However, I'm stuck on making the data adjustable enough where I can add them directly within the objects.
I have a cURL request that I'm calling that grabbing all the content that I need as below:
public function request()
{
$resource = curl_init();
curl_setopt(
$resource,
CURLOPT_URL,
'lorem ipsum'
);
curl_setopt(
$resource,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
['API Auth']
);
curl_setopt(
$resource,
CURLOPT_REFERER,
'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . '/'
);
curl_setopt(
$resource,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
'F'
);
curl_setopt(
$resource,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,
1
);
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($resource), true);
if (!curl_errno($resource)) {
$info = curl_getinfo($resource);
echo 'Took ', $info['total_time'], ' seconds to send a request to ', $info['url'], "\n";
};
return $response;
}
When I call the following execution $offices_array = $this->request(); print_r2($offices_array);, this is the return that I receive:
Array
(
[paginator] => Array
(
[total] => 131
[per_page] => 500
[current_page] => 1
[last_page] => 1
[prev_page] =>
[next_page] =>
)
[data] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => Atlanta
)
I'm using this function _csv_to_array:
private function _csv_to_array($filepath) {
$data_array = array();
if(is_readable($filepath)) {
$fp = fopen($filepath, 'r');
while(($data_item = fgetcsv($fp, 1000, "\t")) !== false) {
$data_array[] = array_map('utf8_encode', $data_item);
}
fclose($fp);
}
return $data_array;
}
to print out data as this:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => ABU DHABI
[1] => FHI
)
How could I do something similar with the cURL request?