diff --git a/src/command/build/render.rs b/src/command/build/render.rs
index c57a132..05e130a 100644
--- a/src/command/build/render.rs
+++ b/src/command/build/render.rs
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ impl SiteRenderer {
         // Steps: for each group, create a RenderBlogStream
         //
         // Steps: pass each RenderBlogStream to dust as the context to render index.html and any additional stream pages.
+
+        for blog_post in &self.blog_posts {
+            println!("{:?}", blog_post.get_date()?);
+        }
         Ok(())
     }
 
diff --git a/src/intermediate/blog_post.rs b/src/intermediate/blog_post.rs
index 4b58d8e..245c0aa 100644
--- a/src/intermediate/blog_post.rs
+++ b/src/intermediate/blog_post.rs
@@ -77,6 +77,30 @@ impl BlogPost {
         }
         inner(root_dir.as_ref(), post_dir.as_ref()).await
     }
+
+    /// Get the date for a blog post.
+    ///
+    /// The date is set by the "#+date" export setting. This will
+    /// first attempt to read the date from an index.org if such a
+    /// file exists. If that file does not exist or that file does not
+    /// contain a date export setting, then this will iterate through
+    /// all the pages under the blog post looking for any page that
+    /// contains a date export setting. It will return the first date
+    /// found.
+    pub(crate) fn get_date(&self) -> Result<(), CustomError> {
+        if let Some(index_page) = self.get_index_page()? {
+            println!("{:?}", index_page);
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Get the blog post page for index.org
+    fn get_index_page(&self) -> Result<Option<&BlogPostPage>, CustomError> {
+        Ok(self
+            .pages
+            .iter()
+            .find(|page| page.path == Path::new("index.org")))
+    }
 }
 
 async fn read_file(path: PathBuf) -> std::io::Result<(PathBuf, String)> {