speeding up blog posts call

rowers/views/statements.py

@@ -819,54 +819,21 @@ def get_blog_posts(request):
 
     
     for postdata in blogs_json[0:3]:
-
+         
-        try:
-            featuredmedia = postdata['featured_media']
-            url = 'https://analytics.rowsandall.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media/%d' % featuredmedia
-            response = requests.get(url)
-
-            if response.status_code == 200:
-                image_json = response.json()
-                image_url = image_json[
-                    'media_details'
-                ][
-                    'sizes'
-                ][
-                    'thumbnail'
-                ][
-                    'source_url'
-                ]
-            else:
-                image_url = ''
-        except KeyError:
-            image_url = ''
-            
-
         try:
             title = postdata['title']['rendered'].encode(
                 'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
 
-            excerpt = postdata['excerpt']['rendered'].encode(
-                'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
-
-            ptester = re.compile('\<p\>(\w.*)\<\/p\>')
-            excerpt_first = ptester.match(excerpt).group(1)
         except TypeError:
             title = postdata['title']['rendered'].encode(
                 'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace').decode('utf-8')
 
-            excerpt = postdata['excerpt']['rendered'].encode(
-                'ascii','xmlcharrefreplace').decode('utf-8')
-
-
-            ptester = re.compile('\<p\>(\w.*)\<\/p\>')
-            excerpt_first = ptester.match(excerpt).group(1)
             
         thedict = {
             'title': title,
-            'author': '',
+#            'author': '',
-            'image': image_url,
+#            'image': image_url,
-            'excerpt': excerpt_first,
+#            'excerpt': excerpt_first,
             'link': postdata['link'],
             }