diff --git a/src/js/models/marker.js b/src/js/models/marker.js
index a3fc15d3f..e418651d5 100644
--- a/src/js/models/marker.js
+++ b/src/js/models/marker.js
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 export const MARKUP_TYPES = ['b', 'a', 'i', 'em', 'strong'];
+const MARKER_TYPE = 'marker';
 
-export default class Marker {
+import { detect } from 'content-kit-editor/utils/array-utils';
+
+const Marker = class Marker {
   constructor(value='', markups=[]) {
     this.value = value;
     this.markups = [];
+    this.type = MARKER_TYPE;
+
     markups.forEach(m => this.addMarkup(m));
   }
 
@@ -39,11 +44,7 @@ export default class Marker {
   }
 
   hasMarkup(type) {
-    for (let i=0; i<this.markups.length; i++) {
-      if (this.markups[i].type === type) {
-        return this.markups[i];
-      }
-    }
+    return detect(this.markups, markup => markup.type === type);
   }
 
   getMarkup(type) {
@@ -67,4 +68,6 @@ export default class Marker {
 
     return [m1, m2];
   }
-}
+};
+
+export default Marker;
diff --git a/src/js/parsers/post.js b/src/js/parsers/post.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..850fde289
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/js/parsers/post.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import Post from 'content-kit-editor/models/post';
+import SectionParser from 'content-kit-editor/parsers/section';
+import { forEach } from 'content-kit-editor/utils/array-utils';
+
+export default {
+  parse(element) {
+    const post = new Post();
+
+    forEach(element.childNodes, child => {
+      post.appendSection(SectionParser.parse(child));
+    });
+
+    return post;
+  }
+};
diff --git a/src/js/parsers/section.js b/src/js/parsers/section.js
index 300a5c6ec..e674ce836 100644
--- a/src/js/parsers/section.js
+++ b/src/js/parsers/section.js
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ import { MARKUP_TYPES } from 'content-kit-editor/models/marker';
 import { getAttributes } from 'content-kit-editor/utils/dom-utils';
 import { forEach } from 'content-kit-editor/utils/array-utils';
 
+/**
+ * parses an element into a section, ignoring any non-markup
+ * elements contained within
+ * @return {Section}
+ */
 export default {
   parse(element) {
     if (!this.isSectionElement(element)) {
diff --git a/tests/unit/parsers/post-test.js b/tests/unit/parsers/post-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0bb8f69c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/parsers/post-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+const {module, test} = QUnit;
+
+import PostParser from 'content-kit-editor/parsers/post';
+import Helpers from '../../test-helpers';
+
+module('Unit: Parser: PostParser');
+
+test('#parse can parse a single text node', (assert) => {
+  let element = Helpers.dom.makeDOM(t =>
+    t('div', {}, [t.text('some text')])
+  );
+
+  const post = PostParser.parse(element);
+  assert.ok(post, 'gets post');
+  assert.equal(post.sections.length, 1, 'has 1 section');
+
+  const s1 = post.sections[0];
+  assert.equal(s1.markers.length, 1, 's1 has 1 marker');
+  assert.equal(s1.markers[0].value, 'some text', 'has text');
+});
+
+test('#parse can parse a section element', (assert) => {
+  let element = Helpers.dom.makeDOM(t =>
+    t('div', {}, [
+      t('p', {}, [
+        t.text('some text')
+      ])
+    ])
+  );
+
+  const post = PostParser.parse(element);
+  assert.ok(post, 'gets post');
+  assert.equal(post.sections.length, 1, 'has 1 section');
+
+  const s1 = post.sections[0];
+  assert.equal(s1.markers.length, 1, 's1 has 1 marker');
+  assert.equal(s1.markers[0].value, 'some text', 'has text');
+});
+
+test('#parse can parse multiple elements', (assert) => {
+  let element = Helpers.dom.makeDOM(t =>
+    t('div', {}, [
+      t('p', {}, [
+        t.text('some text')
+      ]),
+      t.text('some other text')
+    ])
+  );
+
+  const post = PostParser.parse(element);
+  assert.ok(post, 'gets post');
+  assert.equal(post.sections.length, 2, 'has 2 sections');
+
+  const [s1, s2] = post.sections;
+  assert.equal(s1.markers.length, 1, 's1 has 1 marker');
+  assert.equal(s1.markers[0].value, 'some text');
+
+  assert.equal(s2.markers.length, 1, 's2 has 1 marker');
+  assert.equal(s2.markers[0].value, 'some other text');
+});
+