text: from datetime import datetime
  from .util import is_recent
  
  pub_format = '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S'
  
  
  def parse_item(item):
      title = item.findtext('title')
      link = item.findtext('link')
  
      date = None
      pub_date = item.findtext('pubDate')
      if pub_date:
          date_str = pub_date[:pub_date.rfind(' ')]
          date = datetime.strptime(date_str, pub_format).date()
  
      return {"title": title, "link": link, "date": date}
  
  
  def parse(blog_xml):
      title = blog_xml.findall('channel')[0].findtext('title')
      items = blog_xml.findall('channel/item')
      parsed_items = (parse_item(item) for item in items)
      recent = filter(is_recent, parsed_items)
      return {"title": title, "items": list(recent)}
  