Two loops on homepage

[tanzen]

So I wanted to create two loops on my homepage. One that would display the page's own content, and then a grid loop straight beneath it for fetching the two latest posts from the 'news' category. I couldn't really find a way to do it so I hacked around until I got it working, but I'm not sure this is the right way to be doing things, can anyone tell me what improvements I can/should make to this code?

Here's a screenshot of what I have:
http://s18.postimg.org/knrq6sert/2013_11_13_22_55_58.png

Theme: Metro
Template: page-home.php

<?php
 
//* Add support for Genesis Grid Loop
//remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop_helper' );

function child_grid_loop_helper() {
  if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
    
    	global $post;
 
	// arguments, adjust as needed
	$args = array(
		'post_type'      => 'post',
		'posts_per_page' => 2,
		'post_status'    => 'publish',
		'paged'          => get_query_var( 'paged' )
	);
 
	/* 
	Overwrite $wp_query with our new query.
	The only reason we're doing this is so the pagination functions work,
	since they use $wp_query. If pagination wasn't an issue, 
	use: https://gist.github.com/3218106
	*/
	global $wp_query;
	$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 0,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 0,
			'grid_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'grid_content_limit' => 100,
			'more' => __( '[Continue reading...]', 'genesis' ),
		) );
	}
}

//* Remove the post meta function for front page only
remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );

genesis();

Two things I have not figured out yet.

1. How to change the headings of the grid loop from <h2> to <h3>. I had to style the <h2> on that screenshot so that they would be 1.5 rem rather than the default 3 rem. But ideally they would be <h3>.

2. How to remove the post author from those two posts in the grid loop.

Any help appreciated.

[Susan]

As it has been a while since you posted your question, I hope you were able to get your issue resolved.

If not, report back here, and I will escalate for you. Thanks!

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