diff --git a/app/models/aspect.rb b/app/models/aspect.rb
index c87d60c93..a1241b5d6 100644
--- a/app/models/aspect.rb
+++ b/app/models/aspect.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class Aspect < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :aspect_visibilities
   has_many :posts, :through => :aspect_visibilities, :source => :shareable, :source_type => 'Post'
   has_many :photos, :through => :aspect_visibilities, :source => :shareable, :source_type => 'Photo'
-  
+
   validates :name, :presence => true, :length => { :maximum => 20 }
 
   validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => :user_id, :case_sensitive => false
diff --git a/app/models/comment.rb b/app/models/comment.rb
index e3b6cfcae..63e46cb19 100644
--- a/app/models/comment.rb
+++ b/app/models/comment.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
     t.add :id
     t.add :guid
     t.add :text
-    t.add :author, :template => :post
+    t.add :author
   end
 
 
diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index cd914166d..ad66a4dfc 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   # NOTE API V1 to be extracted
   acts_as_api
-  api_accessible :post do |t|
+  api_accessible :backbone do |t|
     t.add :id
     t.add :name
     t.add lambda { |person|
diff --git a/app/models/post.rb b/app/models/post.rb
index 8a1af1210..9780e88b6 100644
--- a/app/models/post.rb
+++ b/app/models/post.rb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
     t.add :comments_count
     t.add :last_three_comments
     t.add :provider_display_name
-    t.add :author, :template => :post
+    t.add :author
   end
 
   xml_attr :provider_display_name
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
index 72fb456b6..7deaa9ecc 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     - if @person
       %link{:rel => "alternate", :href => "#{@person.public_url}.atom", :type => "application/atom+xml", :title => "#{t('.public_feed', :name => @person.name)}"}
 
-  %body{:class => "#{yield(:body_class)}"}
+  %body{:class => "#{yield(:body_class)}", 'data-current-user-metadata' => CGI::escape(current_user.person.as_api_response(:backbone).to_json) }
 
     - unless @page == :logged_out
       - flash.each do |name, msg|
diff --git a/public/javascripts/models/post.js b/public/javascripts/models/post.js
index 5ed8a9ada..316b08d0b 100644
--- a/public/javascripts/models/post.js
+++ b/public/javascripts/models/post.js
@@ -2,5 +2,10 @@ var Post = Backbone.Model.extend({
   url: "/posts/:id",
   intTime: function(){
     return +new Date(this.get("created_at")) / 1000;
+  },
+
+  // should be moved into the view or something?
+  currentUserJSON: function(){
+    return $.parseJSON(unescape($("body").data("current-user-metadata")));
   }
 });