diff --git a/app/models/fb_status.rb b/app/models/fb_status.rb
index 367549c1b..fd190c2c7 100644
--- a/app/models/fb_status.rb
+++ b/app/models/fb_status.rb
@@ -10,21 +10,21 @@ class FbStatus
   key :author_id, String
   key :author_name, String
   key :message, String
-  key :updated_time, DateTime
+  key :updated_time, Time 
 
   timestamps!
 
   validates_presence_of :graph_id,:author_id,:author_name,:message,:updated_time
 
-  def self.from_api(json)
-    hash = JSON.parse(json)
+  def self.from_api(hash)
     #just keeping them in memory for now
     self.new( 
                   :graph_id     => hash['id'],
-                  :author_id    => hash['from']['id']
+                  :author_id    => hash['from']['id'],
                   :author_name  => hash['from']['name'],
-                  :message      => hash['message']
-                  :updated_time => Time.parse(hash['updated_time']
+                  :message      => hash['message'],
+                  :updated_time => Time.parse(hash['updated_time'])
+            )
   end
   
 end
diff --git a/app/views/aspects/public.html.haml b/app/views/aspects/public.html.haml
index e6500e648..4399034f7 100644
--- a/app/views/aspects/public.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/aspects/public.html.haml
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
   - for post in @posts
     = render type_partial(post), :post => post unless post.class == Album
   - if @logged_in
-    - MiniFB.get(@access_token, 'me', :type => "feed").each do |item|
-      - if item['type'] == 'status'
-        = render "fb_status", :post => FbStatus.from_api(item)
+    - MiniFB.get(@access_token, 'me', :type => "feed")[:data].each do |item|
+      - if item[:type] == 'status'
+        = render "fb_status/fb_status", :post => FbStatus.from_api(item)
 
 #pagination
   = will_paginate @posts
diff --git a/app/views/fb_status/_fb_status.html.haml b/app/views/fb_status/_fb_status.html.haml
index 30ec62652..d5a57bd22 100644
--- a/app/views/fb_status/_fb_status.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/fb_status/_fb_status.html.haml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 -#   the COPYRIGHT file.
 
 
-%li.message{:id => post.id, :class => ("mine" if current_user.owns?(post))}
+%li.message{:id => post.id}
 
   = image_tag( "http://graph.facebook.com/#{post.author_id}/picture" )
 
diff --git a/spec/models/fb_status_spec.rb b/spec/models/fb_status_spec.rb
index a74506512..368f8bd16 100644
--- a/spec/models/fb_status_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/fb_status_spec.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
-require 'json'
 
 describe FbStatus do
   
@@ -16,20 +15,20 @@ describe FbStatus do
   end
 
   describe '#from_api' do
-    let(:json_string) {File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../fixtures/fb_status').read}
+    let!(:json_string) {File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../fixtures/fb_status').read}
     let!(:json_object) { JSON.parse(json_string) }
-    let!(:status_from_json) {FbStatus.from_api(json_string)}
+    let!(:status_from_json) {FbStatus.from_api(json_object)}
 
     it 'has graph_id' do
       status_from_json.graph_id.should == json_object['id']
     end
     
     it 'has author_id' do
-      status_from_json.graph_id.should == json_object['from']['id']
+      status_from_json.author_id.should == json_object['from']['id']
     end
 
     it 'has author_name' do
-      status_from_json.graph_id.should == json_object['from']['name']
+      status_from_json.author_name.should == json_object['from']['name']
     end
 
     it 'has message' do