OctoberCMS experience update:
blogPost.post.content_html|raw does not actually give you the raw html like the docs say, it gives you the first <p> tag only.
but APPARENTLY blogPost.post.content|raw does give you the HTML
Now that I'm grabbing variables out of the objects a bit more directly rather than using the canned component views I'm seeing alot more similarities in OctoberCMS to how Django works, except I don't get to write the models and views myself and I have to look up the data structures in some poorly thought out documentation