adjusting excerpt formatting

src/assets/content/blog/song-of-myself.md

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ hero_image: "/src/assets/content/images/ren-ran-bBiuSdck8tU-unsplash.jpg"
 
 ---
 I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the  
- beginning and the end
-
-But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now,  
- Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
+ beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
 
 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.  
  Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and  

src/components/BlogList.vue

@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
             return new Date(date).toDateString().slice(4)
           }, 
           formatExcerpt(excerpt) {
-            return excerpt.slice(0,200).trim() + "..."
+            const blurb = excerpt.slice(3,200).trim()
+            return blurb.indexOf('</p>') !== -1 ? blurb.slice( 0, blurb.indexOf('</p>')  ).trim()  + "..." : blurb  + "..."
           }
         }
     }

src/pages/Index.vue

@@ -29,11 +29,8 @@ export default {
                     date  (format: "MMMM DD YYYY")
                     hero_image (width:1000, quality: 75)
                     content
-                    excerpt
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 </page-query>
-
-//for some reason, excerpt is undefined??