LimitWordCount / FirstParagraph, Etc. (How to convert SQL result to Object?)

Hi,

I am getting the results of a custom search query (on Blog Entries only). I am getting the $Content field from SiteTree and am unable to use either LimitWordCount or FirstParagraph on it. The error is: "Trying to get property of non-object". How can I "convert" this to an object so that I can use these methods?

My results are being returned as follows:

$results->push(new ArrayData(array(
"Title" => $Title,
"Content" => $Content->FirstParagraph, ??????????
"URLSegment" => $URLSegment,
"Date" => date('F d, Y', strtotime($Date)),
"Author" => $Author,
"Tags" => $Tags
)));

A little help? have run into this issue numerous times and have never solved it.

Thanks,
Garrett