Get Data from Wordpress in to Joomla CMS?

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Get Data from Wordpress in to Joomla CMS?

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The easy question: Can I access a wordpress database from Joomla?

Here's why... I have a Joomla web site that I have "wrapped" a highly stripped down version of wordpress (removed everything except the posts, basically, and moved only the categories from the sidebar to the footer). The blog resides at /blog, the main joomla CMS is in the root.

I am doing a study of ATV accidents where I am posting the accidents in categories so I know how the accident happened, if the rider was wearing a helmet, riding on pavement, riding too big of an ATV etc. I want to be able to access the blog's database from the CMS site and dynamically display the current results, similar to what the category display looks like by adding the number of posts in that category...

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# ATV Accidents (39)

    * Drugs/Alcohol (4)
    * No Helmet (23)
    * On Pavement (9)
    * Ridden Safely (3)
    * Riding 2 Up (13)
    * Too Big (1)
The main site with the blog wrapped is here, the bare blog is here. (The categories are at the bottom of the page)

Any help would be appreciated.

Word of caution; while I can program with things like VB, MP and a few others, along with MS Access Databases, I'm a total newb to PhP and MySQL. :D
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