I can’t seem to get excerpts showing inside get_pages and don’t know why?

You can use this function wp_trim_words(). It allows you to format the output, and strips all the HTML tags in the content (it uses wp_strip_all_tags).

You will have to pass post_content as the first paramenter.

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