I have researched this question on several forums and have found the most relevant answer here: Add "Recent Posts" from a wordpress blog to a html static page.
What I am looking for is an expansion upon this answer that will allow me to include a featured image and post_excerpt. I have searched Google and this forum, to no avail. Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
My goal is to include an RSS-type feed on my HTML site drawn from my blog, which resides in a sub-directory of my site.
The aforementioned PHP snippet works perfect for displaying and linking to the most recent posts, however, I would like to display both a featured post image and a post excerpt within the feed.