diff --git a/src/scripts/app.tag b/src/scripts/app.tag
index 4bf0795..4ec0433 100644
--- a/src/scripts/app.tag
+++ b/src/scripts/app.tag
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ document.addEventListener("click", function(event) {
 });
 
 self.state = {
+    "browsed" : false, /* was a link clicked to a post yet */
     "page" : self.opts.page,
     "results" : self.decode(self.opts.results),
     "start" : self.opts.start,
@@ -141,7 +142,8 @@ self.state = {
     "loaded" : false,
     "initial" : document.getElementsByTagName("noscript")[0].textContent,
     "links" : self.decode(self.opts.links),
-    "categories" : self.decode(self.opts.categories)
+    "categories" : self.decode(self.opts.categories),
+    "post_categories" : self.decode(self.opts.post_categories)
 };
 
 self.active = lens.actives({
@@ -215,6 +217,7 @@ self.on("mount", () => {
   window.RiotControl.on("openpost",
     (id) => {
       console.log("caught the event in the app tag");
+      self.state.browsed = true;
       console.log(`the id is ${id}`);
       self.route(`/posts/${id}`);
     }
diff --git a/src/scripts/post.tag b/src/scripts/post.tag
index cd2f25a..1591aa3 100644
--- a/src/scripts/post.tag
+++ b/src/scripts/post.tag
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ self.route = route;
 
 self.loading = false;
 
-self.categories = [];
+self.categories = self.opts.state.post_categories;
 self._id = self.opts.state._id.slice(-hashLength);
 self.author = self.opts.state.author;
 self.title = self.opts.state.title;
@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ prevPost(_id) {
 }
 
 self.on("mount", () => {
-  self.getPost(self._id);
+  if (self.opts.state.browsed) {
+    self.getPost(self._id);
+  }
 });
 
 </script>
diff --git a/src/templates/index.html b/src/templates/index.html
index 40a8f25..5289bef 100644
--- a/src/templates/index.html
+++ b/src/templates/index.html
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
             start: "{{ start }}",
             results: "{{ quote(results) }}",
             categories: "{{ quote(categories) }}",
+            post_categories: "{{ quote(dumps(postcontent['categories'])) }}",
             links : "{{ quote(links) }}",
             page : "{{ page }}",
             author : "{{ postcontent['author'] }}",
diff --git a/src/website.py b/src/website.py
index d9a2726..5f91653 100755
--- a/src/website.py
+++ b/src/website.py
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ def NeverWhere(configfile=None):
         postcontent["title"] = initial_post["title"]
         return {
                 "quote" : quote,
+                "dumps" : dumps,
                 "start" : 0,
                 "results" : dumps([]),
                 "postid" : initial_post["_id"],