CG-FeedRead – how to get wp excerpts?

I recently started using the CG-FeedRead plugin to try and grab info from several WP blogs to post on an index.php page elsewhere in my domain. It seems like I’m setting the options correctly for what I would like. I want the RSS to display as below:
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(no blog title – I figured out this option)
the post title of the most recent entry
followed by a truncated, 200-character description using the excerpt of the wp post
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but the feedreader seems to only return the title – no description shows up, even though the post definitely has an excerpt. Here’s the code I’m passing to CG-FeedRead – could you all let me know if I screwed up some option or another? Thanks!

<?php
$feedUrl = "https://www.thisistheurl.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=2";
$feedOut = getSomeFeed($feedUrl, 1, false, "thisisthetestcache", '', 36, 200, false, false, 0, true);
if ($feedOut)
echo $feedOut;
?>