Plugin stops all articles from loading when url shortener is down

I have faced this often when my internet connection is not connected and I am working on localhost.
Today it happened when bitly was not reachable for a while. That was about 3 hours back.
PHP Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in public_html/wp-content/plugins/url-shortener/components/jz_shortener/lib/jzsc.shared.php on line 235

Checking that line of code, it reads

if($result['body']){
                    $data = $result['body'];
                }

That throws is an issue when there is an error in actually fetching the data. wp_http instead gives wp_error.
It would be good to check if the key body exists in the array as follows:

if (array_key_exists('body',$result) {
    $data = $result['body'];
}

Here’s the WP_Error thrown by WP_Http when bitly isn’t reachable

object(WP_Error)[16]
  public 'errors' =>
    array (size=1)
      'http_request_failed' =>
        array (size=1)
          0 => string 'Could not resolve host: api.bit.ly; Unknown error' (length=49)
  public 'error_data' =>
    array (size=0)
      empty

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