Utility method to get SharePoint 2010 blog posts and their comments

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Say no more. Here it is. Self-explanatory.

        public class Post
        {
            public string Title;
            public string Body;
            public DateTime Published;
            public IEnumerable<Comment> Comments;
        }

        public class Comment
        {
            public string Title;
            public string Body;
            public string Author;
            public DateTime Created;
        }

        static IEnumerable<Post> GetBlogPosts()
        {
            // TODO: get blog's site collection's url
            using (SPSite s = new SPSite("https://server/sites/myblog"))
            {
                SPWeb w = s.RootWeb;

                // get posts
                List<Post> posts = new List<Post>();
                SPList pl = w.Lists["posts"];
                SPQuery pq = new SPQuery() { ViewFields = "<FieldRef Name='Title' /><FieldRef Name='Body' /><FieldRef Name='PublishedDate' />" };
                foreach (SPListItem pli in pl.GetItems(pq))
                {
                    // get post
                    posts.Add(new Post() { Body = (string)pli["Body"], Title = (string)pli["Title"], Published = (DateTime)pli["PublishedDate"], Comments = new List<Comment>() });
                }

                // get comments
                SPList cl = w.Lists["comments"];
                SPQuery cq = new SPQuery() { ViewFields = "<FieldRef Name='Title' /><FieldRef Name='Body' /><FieldRef Name='Author' /><FieldRef Name='Created' /><FieldRef Name='PostTitle' />" };
                foreach (SPListItem cli in cl.GetItems(cq))
                {
                    SPFieldLookupValue plookup = new SPFieldLookupValue((string)cli["PostTitle"]);
                    (from Post p in posts where p.Title == plookup.LookupValue select p).FirstOrDefault<Post>().Comments.Add(new Comment() { Body = (string)cli["Body"], Title = (string)cli["Title"], Author = (string)cli["Author"], Created = (DateTime)cli["Created"] });
                }

                // return
                return (posts);
            }
        }