Blew away everything I did earlier and started again. Watched a few tuts and I realized I was doing everything wrong. 'Tis what I get for trying to shove KO.js methodologies into AngularJS. Anywho, this AngularJS stuff... man... craziness, but I'm loving it. Got posts rendering using a 'post' directive and a 'service' to get the posts from the json file. Tomorrow I will takle paging which will involve delving into the magical world of 'filters'.