How to get excerpt of the recent posts

  • Right now, i am using code below to show title and its link of recent posts from my custom post category, but for one of my category i want to show excerpt, how can i achieve that.

    CODE i am using to display title:

    <?php
    $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array('post_type'=>'jokes'));
    foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
        echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="Look '.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li> ';
    }
?>
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  • akapellos

    (@salat-production)

    if( !empty($post->post_excerpt) ) {
            the_excerpt();
            } else {
               echo wp_trim_words(get_the_content(), 20); } ?>

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