title: Including markdown inside yaml front-matter
body: <p>One of my web pages needs to include rows of items (image, title, description). The description must accept markdown. I haven't found any way to do this in Jekyll without plugins or creating multiple files, one for each item.</p>
  
  <p>Another requirement is that the site be built by <a href="http://pages.github.com/" rel="noreferrer">Github Pages</a>. ie: no Jekyll plugins, Redcarpet markdown.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I would have liked to create a Jekyll data file (_data/products.yml) which contains a structure similar to below. Note that Description contains markdown list and formatting.</p>
  
  <pre><code>- Name: Company A
    Year: 2005
    Description: &gt;
      I was responsible for the following:
      - Review of contracts
      - Hiring
      - Accounting
  
  - Name: Company B
    Year: 2010
    Description: &gt;
      My role included **supervising** the marketing team and leading **publicity**.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Another option I saw was to use Front-matter with the above info. It is slightly more cumbersome since it ties the data with a particular page (eg: work-experience.md).</p>
  
  <p>I've tried various variations on the above but the formatting is never transformed into HTML. How can this be handled?</p>