diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogCacheFactory.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogCacheFactory.cs
index cae58be..377ce9e 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogCacheFactory.cs
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogCacheFactory.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web.Factories
         public static PostCache ProjectPostCache(IEnumerable<IPost> rawPosts)
         {
             var orderedPosts = rawPosts.OrderByDescending(a => a.PublishDate);
-            var posts = new List<IPost>();
+            var posts = new List<IPost>(orderedPosts);
             var urlToPosts = new Dictionary<string, IPost>();
             var tagsToPost = new Dictionary<string, IList<IPost>>();
             var postsByPage = new Dictionary<int, IList<IPost>>();
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogFactory.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogFactory.cs
index 32ecad3..204e75a 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogFactory.cs
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/BlogFactory.cs
@@ -17,25 +17,21 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web
 {
     public class BlogFactory
     {
-        public IEnumerable<IPost> GetAllPosts(string domain)
+        public async Task<IEnumerable<IPost>> GetAllPostsAsync(string domain)
         {
             // why didn't I use f# I'd have a pipe operator by now
             var posts = GetPosts();
-            var list = new ConcurrentBag<IPost>();
-            Parallel.ForEach(posts, post =>
-            {
-                var (text, fileInfo) = GetFileText(post);
-                list.Add(ParsePost(text, fileInfo.Name, domain));
-            });
-            return list;
+            return await Task.WhenAll(posts.Select(async (post) => {
+                var (text, fileInfo) = await GetFileText(post);
+                return ParsePost(text, fileInfo.Name, domain);
+            }));
         }
 
-        private static (string text, FileInfo fileInfo) GetFileText(string filePath)
+        private static async Task<(string text, FileInfo fileInfo)> GetFileText(string filePath)
         {
             var fileInfo = new FileInfo(filePath);
-            var text = File.ReadAllText(fileInfo.FullName);
+            var text = await File.ReadAllTextAsync(fileInfo.FullName);
             return (text, fileInfo);
-
         }
 
         public IEnumerable<string> GetPosts() => Directory.EnumerateFiles(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "Posts"), "*.md", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
@@ -46,13 +42,7 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web
             return serializer.Deserialize<PostSettings>(ymlText);
 
         }
-        public IPost ParsePost(string postText, string fileName, string domain)
-        {
-            var splitFile = postText.Split("---");
-            var ymlRaw = splitFile[0];
-            var markdownText = string.Join("", splitFile.Skip(1));
-            var postSettings = ParseYaml(ymlRaw);
-            var resolvedUrl = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(postSettings.permalink) ? postSettings.permalink : fileName.Split('.')[0].Replace(' ', '-').WithoutSpecialCharacters();
+        public (string postContent, string postContentPlain, string summary, string postSummaryPlain, IList<string> postImages) ResolveContentForPost(string markdownText, string fileName, string resolvedUrl, string domain) {
             List<string> postImages = new List<string>();
             var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
                                 .Use(new AbsoluteLinkConverter(resolvedUrl, domain))
@@ -67,6 +57,15 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web
 
             var summary = postContent.Split("<!-- more -->")[0];
             var postSummaryPlain = postContentPlain.Split("<!-- more -->")[0];
+            return (postContent, postContentPlain, summary, postSummaryPlain, postImages);
+        }
+        public IPost ParsePost(string postText, string fileName, string domain)
+        {
+            var splitFile = postText.Split("---");
+            var ymlRaw = splitFile[0];
+            var markdownText = string.Join("", splitFile.Skip(1));
+            var postSettings = ParseYaml(ymlRaw);
+            var resolvedUrl = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(postSettings.permalink) ? postSettings.permalink : fileName.Split('.')[0].Replace(' ', '-').WithoutSpecialCharacters();
 
             return new Post()
             {
@@ -76,12 +75,17 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web
                 RelativeUrl = $"/{resolvedUrl}/",
                 CanonicalUrl = $"https://blog.terrible.dev/{resolvedUrl}/",
                 UrlWithoutPath = resolvedUrl,
-                Content = new HtmlString(postContent),
-                Summary = new HtmlString(summary),
-                SummaryPlain = postSummaryPlain,
-                SummaryPlainShort = (postContentPlain.Length <= 147 ? postContentPlain : postContentPlain.Substring(0, 146)) + "...",
-                ContentPlain = postContentPlain,
-                Images = postImages.Distinct().ToList()
+                Content = new Lazy<IPostContent>(() => {
+                    (string postContent, string postContentPlain, string summary, string postSummaryPlain, IList<string> postImages) = ResolveContentForPost(markdownText, fileName, resolvedUrl, domain);
+                    return new PostContent() {
+                        Content = new HtmlString(postContent),
+                        Images = postImages,
+                        ContentPlain = postContent,
+                        Summary = new HtmlString(summary),
+                        SummaryPlain = postSummaryPlain,
+                        SummaryPlainShort = (postContentPlain.Length <= 147 ? postContentPlain : postContentPlain.Substring(0, 146)) + "..." 
+                    };
+                }),
             };
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/LazyBlogFactory.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Factories/LazyBlogFactory.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPost.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPost.cs
index 54be954..a2d2796 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPost.cs
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPost.cs
@@ -13,14 +13,9 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web.Models
         string UrlWithoutPath { get; set; }
         string RelativeUrl { get; set; }
         string Title { get; set; }
-        HtmlString Summary { get; set; }
         DateTime PublishDate { get; set; }
-        HtmlString Content { get; set; }
-        string ContentPlain { get; set; }
-        string SummaryPlain { get; set; }
-        string SummaryPlainShort { get; set; }
         IList<string> tags { get; set; }
-        IList<string> Images { get; set;}
+        Lazy<IPostContent> Content { get; set; }
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPostContent.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPostContent.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a60df76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/IPostContent.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Html;
+
+namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web.Models 
+{
+    public interface IPostContent
+    {
+        HtmlString Content { get; set; }
+        HtmlString Summary { get; set; }
+        string ContentPlain { get; set; }
+        string SummaryPlain { get; set; }
+        string SummaryPlainShort { get; set; }
+        IList<string> Images { get; set; }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/Post.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/Post.cs
index 676c596..1731935 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/Post.cs
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/Post.cs
@@ -14,12 +14,7 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web.Models
         public string RelativeUrl { get; set; }
         public string Title { get; set; }
         public DateTime PublishDate { get; set; }
-        public HtmlString Content { get; set; }
-        public HtmlString Summary { get; set; }
-        public string ContentPlain { get; set; }
-        public string SummaryPlain { get; set; }
-        public string SummaryPlainShort { get; set; }
         public IList<string> tags { get; set; }
-        public IList<string> Images { get; set; }
+        public Lazy<IPostContent> Content { get; set; }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/PostContent.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/PostContent.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb0ce1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Models/PostContent.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Html;
+
+namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web.Models
+{
+
+    public class PostContent : IPostContent
+    {
+        public HtmlString Content { get; set; }
+        public HtmlString Summary { get; set; }
+        public string ContentPlain { get; set; }
+        public string SummaryPlain { get; set; }
+        public string SummaryPlainShort { get; set; }
+        public IList<string> Images { get; set; }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Startup.cs b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Startup.cs
index 05f726e..1d29a48 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Startup.cs
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Startup.cs
@@ -39,8 +39,16 @@ namespace TerribleDev.Blog.Web
                 services.AddSingleton(getBlog());
             }
             services.AddSingleton((i) => {
-                var posts = new BlogFactory().GetAllPosts(Env.IsDevelopment() ? "https://localhost:5001": "https://blog.terrible.dev");
-                return BlogCacheFactory.ProjectPostCache(posts);
+                var posts = new BlogFactory().GetAllPostsAsync(Env.IsDevelopment() ? "https://localhost:5001": "https://blog.terrible.dev").Result;
+                var postCache = BlogCacheFactory.ProjectPostCache(posts);
+                if(Env.IsProduction()) {
+                    foreach(var post in postCache.PostsAsLists) 
+                    {
+                        // if we are in production turn off lazy loading
+                        var value = post.Content.Value;
+                    }
+                }
+                return postCache;
             });
             services.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetry();
             var controllerBuilder = services.AddControllersWithViews();
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Home/Post.cshtml b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Home/Post.cshtml
index bab6965..7689408 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Home/Post.cshtml
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Home/Post.cshtml
@@ -9,26 +9,26 @@
 </cache>
 
 @section Head {
-    <meta name="description" content="@Model.SummaryPlainShort" />
+    <meta name="description" content="@Model.Content.Value.SummaryPlainShort" />
     <meta property="og:type" content="blog">
     <meta property="og:title" content="@Model.Title">
     <meta property="og:url" content="@Model.CanonicalUrl">
     <meta property="og:site_name" content="@config.Title">
-    <meta property="og:description" content="@Model.SummaryPlainShort">
+    <meta property="og:description" content="@Model.Content.Value.SummaryPlainShort">
     <meta property="og:updated_time" content="@Model.PublishDate.ToString("O")">
     <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
     <meta name="twitter:title" content="@Model.Title">
-    <meta name="twitter:description" content="@Model.SummaryPlainShort">
+    <meta name="twitter:description" content="@Model.Content.Value.SummaryPlainShort">
     <meta name="twitter:site" content="@@TerribleDev">
     <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@@TerribleDev">
     <link rel="canonical" href="@Model.CanonicalUrl" />
-    @foreach(var image in Model.Images.Take(6))
+    @foreach(var image in Model.Content.Value.Images.Take(6))
     {
         <meta property="og:image" content="@image">
     }
-    @if(Model.Images.Count > 0)
+    @if(Model.Content.Value.Images.Count > 0)
     {
-        <meta name="twitter:image" content="@(Model.Images[0])">
+        <meta name="twitter:image" content="@(Model.Content.Value.Images[0])">
     }
     <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/333e3cea32cd17ff2007d131df336061?s=640" />
 }
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates/Post.cshtml b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates/Post.cshtml
index ce30b13..25a4256 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates/Post.cshtml
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates/Post.cshtml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <article itemprop="blogPost">
     <h1 itemprop="headline" class="headline">@Model.Title</h1>
     <time class="headlineSubtext" itemprop="datePublished" content="@Model.PublishDate.ToString()">@Model.PublishDate.ToString("D")</time>
-    @Model.Content
+    @Model.Content.Value.Content
     @if (Model.tags.Count > 0)
     {
         <div>
diff --git a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/PostSummary.cshtml b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/PostSummary.cshtml
index 5e9d9de..e12b9fb 100644
--- a/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/PostSummary.cshtml
+++ b/src/TerribleDev.Blog.Web/Views/Shared/PostSummary.cshtml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <h3 itemprop="headline" class="headline"><a href="@Model.RelativeUrl" class="link-unstyled">@Model.Title</a></h3>
     <time class="headlineSubtext" itemprop="datePublished" content="@Model.PublishDate.ToString()">@Model.PublishDate.ToString("D")</time>
     <div itemprop="articleBody">
-        @Model.Summary
+        @Model.Content.Value.Summary
     </div>
     <a href="@Model.RelativeUrl">Continue Reading </a>
 </article>