--- title: "YAML: does it fit in Markdown?" author: test tags: - yaml - markdown wrappedtext: > this is really a single line of text despite appearances include_newlines: | exactly as you see will appear these three lines of poetry bool: false people: - name: John D'vloper job: Developer alive: true hobbies: - Amateur radio - Pet adoption & fostering - Puzzle - name: Tabitha Bitumen job: Developer hobbies: - Ice skating - Water polo - Caving --- # YAML: does it fit in Markdown? Lots of Static Site Generators like Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor and more use a standard format: Markdown with YAML Front Matter. Why --- Because blog posts need metadata!