A JSON formatted response containing all posts from a Jekyll blog

api.json

[
  {
    "homepage": "http://digitaljhelms.github.com",
    "name": "digitaljhelms",
    "description": "finally blogging...",
    "author": "Jeremy Helms",
    "post": {
      "url": "http://digitaljhelms.github.com/howto/creating-a-branch-with-no-parents-or-history",
      "slug": "creating-a-branch-with-no-parents-or-history",
      "title": "Create a Git Branch without Parents or History",
      "published_on": "2012-07-02 00:00:00 -0500",
      "excerpt": "git checkout has an --orphan option that will create a branch with no "parents" or relation at all to other branches/commits in the repository.From the man page:Create a new orphan branch, named , started from and switch to it. The first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be...",
      "tags": "git",
      "categories": "howto"
    },
    "post": {
      "url": "http://digitaljhelms.github.com/howto/build-and-install-git-from-source-on-os-x-lion",
      "slug": "build-and-install-git-from-source-on-os-x-lion",
      "title": "Build and Install Git from Source on OS X Lion",
      "published_on": "2012-06-09 00:00:00 -0500",
      "excerpt": "This outline for building and installing Git has only been tested against Mac OS X 10.7.x (Lion). While these steps may work for previous versions of Mac OS X, I cannot confirm this. Furthermore, you're on your own, if you screw something up, it's not my fault.If you have Xcode 4, you have Git!Xcode 4...",
      "tags": "git, osx, lion",
      "categories": "howto"
    }
  }
]

api.json.jekyll

---
# Remember to set production_url in your _config.yml file!
title : JSON
---
[
  {
    "homepage": "{{ site.production_url }}",
    "name": "{{ site.title }}",
    "description": "{{ site.tagline }}",
    "author": "{{ site.author.name }}"{% for post in site.posts %},
    "post": {
      "url": "{{ site.production_url }}{{ post.url }}",
      "slug": "{{ post.id | remove:'/' }}",
      "title": "{{ post.title }}",
      "published_on": "{{ post.date }}",
      "excerpt": "{{ post.content | strip_html | strip_newlines | truncatewords: 55 }}",
      "tags": "{% for tag in post.tags %}{{ tag }}{% if forloop.rindex0 > 0 %}, {% endif %}{% endfor %}",
      "categories": "{% for category in post.categories %}{{ category }}{% if forloop.rindex0 > 0 %}, {% endif %}{% endfor %}"
    }{% endfor %}
  }
]