public function get_post_from_url(){
    global $wpdb;
    $postid = url_to_postid(esc_url("http://localhost/teln/web-security-privacy-not-trade-off-both-should-be-goal-engineers-say/"));
    $query = "
    SELECT      ID, post_date, post_title, post_excerpt, post_type
    FROM        $wpdb->posts
    WHERE       $wpdb->posts.ID = %d
    AND         $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish'
    LIMIT       1
    ";
    $sql = $wpdb->prepare($query, $postid);
    $results = $wpdb->get_results($sql);

    return $results;

}


public function process_post_data_and_return_json($results){
    $to_return = array();
    $post_date = get_the_date( "U", $results[0]->ID );
    $tags      = get_the_tags( $results[0]->ID );
    $main_tag  = "";
    if ( is_array( $tags ) ) {
        foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {
            if ( $tag->slug == 'featured' ) {
                $main_tag = 'Featured';
            } else if ( $tag->slug == 'highlight' ) {
                $main_tag = 'Highlight';
            }
        }
    }

    $to_return['tag']           = $main_tag;
    $to_return['ID']            = $results[0]->ID;
    $to_return['date']          = date( "M j, Y", $post_date );
    $to_return['hour']          = date( "H:i", $post_date );
    $to_return['post_title']    = $results[0]->post_title;
    $to_return['post_excerpt']  = ( ! empty( $results[0]->post_excerpt ) ? "<span class='bbna-email-excerpt'>" . $results[0]->post_excerpt . "</span>" : "<span class='no-excerpt-warning'>NO EXCERPT FOUND!</span>" );

    $response = json_encode($to_return);

    return $response;
}

Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [ID] => 85332 [post_date] => 2015-05-27 06:01:38 [post_title] => Web Security, Privacy Not Trade-Off, Both Should Be Goal, Engineers Say [post_excerpt] => Building trust in the Internet requires a concerted effort to bolster security and user privacy, technical policy panelists said May 25 at an International Telecommunication Union event in Geneva. [post_type] => post ) )

{"tag":"","ID":null,"date":"Jan 1, 1970","hour":"00:00","post_title":null,"post_excerpt":"NO EXCERPT FOUND!</span>"}