diff --git a/rowers/views.py b/rowers/views.py
index ec9389ff..3c037728 100644
--- a/rowers/views.py
+++ b/rowers/views.py
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ def get_blog_posts(request):
             image_url = ''
             
 
-        title = cgi.escape(postdata['title']['rendered']).encode(
+        title = postdata['title']['rendered'].encode(
             'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
 
         excerpt = postdata['excerpt']['rendered'].encode(