diff --git a/_cobalt.yml b/_cobalt.yml
index 92d2efa..f7b164b 100644
--- a/_cobalt.yml
+++ b/_cobalt.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
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diff --git a/_posts/2021-09-17-glean-geckoview.md b/_posts/2021-09-17-glean-geckoview.md
index fc94099..4091bd5 100644
--- a/_posts/2021-09-17-glean-geckoview.md
+++ b/_posts/2021-09-17-glean-geckoview.md
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ data:
   tags:
     - mozilla
     - rust
-  synopsis: |
-    It took us several more weeks to put everything into place,
-    but we're finally shipping the Rust parts of the Glean Android SDK with GeckoView
-    and consume that in Android Components
+excerpt: |
+  It took us several more weeks to put everything into place,
+  but we're finally shipping the Rust parts of the Glean Android SDK with GeckoView
+  and consume that in Android Components.
 ---
 
 (“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whatever: so long as it is inspired by Glean.)
diff --git a/_posts/2021-11-01-buggy-glean-and-a-data-incident.md b/_posts/2021-11-01-buggy-glean-and-a-data-incident.md
index fcaeb74..ccfc20f 100644
--- a/_posts/2021-11-01-buggy-glean-and-a-data-incident.md
+++ b/_posts/2021-11-01-buggy-glean-and-a-data-incident.md
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ data:
   tags:
     - mozilla
     - rust
-  synopsis: |
-    Shortly after we shipped Glean through GeckoView in a Fenix Nightly release
-    we received a crash report pointing to code that we haven't touched in a long time.
-    And yet the change of switching from a standalone Glean library
-    to shipping Glean in GeckoView uncovered a crashing bug, that quickly rose to be the top crasher for Fenix for more than a week
+excerpt: |
+  Shortly after we shipped Glean through GeckoView in a Fenix Nightly release
+  we received a crash report pointing to code that we haven't touched in a long time.
+  And yet the change of switching from a standalone Glean library
+  to shipping Glean in GeckoView uncovered a crashing bug, that quickly rose to be the top crasher for Fenix for more than a week.
 ---
 
 (“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whatever: so long as it is inspired by Glean.)
diff --git a/_posts/2021-12-17-glean-in-2021.md b/_posts/2021-12-17-glean-in-2021.md
index 8df6056..98490d4 100644
--- a/_posts/2021-12-17-glean-in-2021.md
+++ b/_posts/2021-12-17-glean-in-2021.md
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ data:
   route: blog
   tags:
     - mozilla
-  synopsis: |
-    A year ago I posted Glean in 2021 as a way to look into the future
-    and set out a vision and plan for the project.
-    Today I'm looking back at 2021, if we were able to follow up on my plans back then
-    and look at all the other things we did for Glean
+excerpt: |
+  A year ago I posted Glean in 2021 as a way to look into the future
+  and set out a vision and plan for the project.
+  Today I'm looking back at 2021, if we were able to follow up on my plans back then
+  and look at all the other things we did for Glean.
 ---
 
 (“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whatever: so long as it is inspired by Glean.)
diff --git a/_posts/2021-12-31-2021-in-many-words.md b/_posts/2021-12-31-2021-in-many-words.md
index 275a327..328c2d3 100644
--- a/_posts/2021-12-31-2021-in-many-words.md
+++ b/_posts/2021-12-31-2021-in-many-words.md
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ published_date: "2021-12-31 23:59:59 +0100"
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   route: blog
-  synopsis: |
+excerpt: |
     It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
     I did so in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
-    Let's look at 2021 now
+    Let's look at 2021 now.
 ---
 
 It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
diff --git a/index.liquid b/index.liquid
index 73cf3b8..df23f26 100644
--- a/index.liquid
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-  {%- else %}
-  <p>{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords: 50, '…' }}</p>
-  {%- endif -%}
+  <p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
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