title: post_excerpt instead of post_content, outside of the loop
body: <p>I'm trying to get a wordpress excerpt from a page to appear in a styled area of my footer. I currently have the following, which gives me the title and all of the content:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $page_id = 2;
  $page_data = get_page( $page_id );
  $content = $page_data-&gt;post_content;
  $title = $page_data-&gt;post_title;
  echo '&lt;h3&gt;'. $page_data-&gt;post_title .'&lt;/h3&gt;';
  echo '&lt;p&gt;'. $page_data-&gt;post_content .'&lt;/p&gt;'; ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried various combinations of post_excerpt instead of post_content, and have tried emulating and editing the example here: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page</a> but am not having any luck. A few times I've tried examples from other people, but there has been no content at all.</p>
  
  <p>Could this be because I'm trying to get it to display outside of the loop, or have I just not hit the right combination yet?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>