So, we've seen how to natively pull in a normal RSS feed, parse, and build out the pages using normal, tedious string concatenation. Now, let's consider an alternative that I had no idea even existed when I first started writing this chapter. Thanks go to Raymond Camden and Andy Matthews for pointing this out in their book, jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials. You need to follow those two on Twitter at @cfjedimaster
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The Google Feeds API can be fed several options, but at its core, it's a way to specify an RSS or ATOM feed and get back a JSON representation. Naturally, this opens up a few more interesting doors in this chapter. If we can now pull in multiple feeds of different types without having to have any kind of server-side proxy, we can greatly simplify our lives. Client-side templates are back in the picture! No more string concatenation! Since they're all in a unified format (including the publish date), we can pull them all...