function _diggthis_get_post_description() {
$excerpt = get_the_content();
$excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
$excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
$excerpt = substr($excerpt,0, 350);
$words_array = explode(' ', $excerpt);
$word_cnt = count($words_array);
return implode(' ', array_slice($words_array, 0, $word_cnt - 1));
}