2015-05-05-c-and-the-wordpress-api_001.cs

public IEnumerable GetWordPressPosts() 
{
 using(WebClient webClient = new WebClient()) 
 {
  string blogUrl = @ "https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/hendrikbulens.wordpress.com/posts/";
  string response = webClient.DownloadString(blogUrl);
  WordPressBlog blogPosts = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(response);
  
  IEnumerable posts = blogPosts.posts.OrderByDescending(x => x.date).Take(3).Select(x => new BlogPost() {
   Title = x.title, 
   Message = x.excerpt.CharacterLimit(150), 
   PublishedOn = x.date, 
   Comments = x.discussion.comment_count, 
   Link = x.URL
  });
  
  return posts;
 }
}