diff --git a/blog-refresh.sh b/blog-refresh.sh
index c90e516..536d9a8 100755
--- a/blog-refresh.sh
+++ b/blog-refresh.sh
@@ -69,14 +69,16 @@ $(pandoc $3 | sed '/<!--/d;s/^/         /')]]>
 create_entry() {
     path="$9"
     outpath="$(basename "$path" .md).html"
-    # convert new markdown posts to html
-    pandoc -s --css=/css/sakura-vader.css --template=./pandoc-template-v2.2.1.html5 \
-        -V og-url="https://$outpath" \
-        src/meta/default.yaml "$path" src/footer/footer.md -t html5 -f markdown -o "dist/$outpath"
-    # then add it to the index
-    title=$(grep -h '<title>' "dist/$outpath" | sed 's/<title>//g;s/<\/title>//g')
     created=$(grep -h '^date: ' "$path" | sed 's/date: //g')
     created_date=$(date +'%b %d, %Y' --date="$created")
+    published_date=$(date --iso-8601=seconds --date="$created")
+    # convert new markdown posts to html
+    pandoc -s --css=/css/sakura-vader.css --template=./pandoc-template-v2.2.1.html5 \
+        -V og-url="https://$outpath" -V published-date="$published_date" \
+        -V include-footer="$footer" \
+        src/meta/default.yaml "$path" -t html5 -f markdown -o "dist/$outpath"
+    # then add it to the index
+    title=$(grep -h '<title>' "dist/$outpath" | sed 's/<title>//g;s/<\/title>//g')
     html_entry "$outpath" "$created_date" "$title"
     rss_entry "$title" "$outpath" $path $created
 }
@@ -84,7 +86,10 @@ create_entry() {
 convert_static() {
     path="$9"
     outpath="$(basename "$path" .md).html"
-    pandoc -s --css=/css/sakura-vader.css "$path" src/footer/footer.md -t html5 -f markdown -o "dist/$outpath"
+    pandoc -s --css=/css/sakura-vader.css --template=./pandoc-template-v2.2.1.html5 "$path" \
+        -V include-footer="$footer" \
+        -t html5 -f markdown -o "dist/$outpath"
+
 }
 
 has_updates() {
@@ -97,6 +102,7 @@ has_updates() {
     fi
 }
 
+footer="$(cat src/footer/footer.html)"
 cd /home/lucy/blog-content/
 rm -R dist/*
 rsync -q --delete -avxt static/ dist/
@@ -104,4 +110,7 @@ add_header
 ls -lr src/posts/*.md | tail -n+1 | while read f; do create_entry $f; done
 ls -l src/*.md | tail -n+1 | while read f; do convert_static $f; done
 add_footer
-pandoc -s --css=/css/sakura-vader.css src/index/index_header.md dist/posts-table.html src/index/after-entry-list.md src/footer/footer.md -o dist/index.html
+pandoc -s --css=/css/sakura-vader.css \
+    -V include-after="$footer" \
+    src/index/index_header.md dist/posts-table.html src/index/after-entry-list.md \
+    -t html5 -f markdown -o dist/index.html