diff --git a/core/frontend/services/rendering/format-response.js b/core/frontend/services/rendering/format-response.js
index 48d70d5cee..98d02da0e9 100644
--- a/core/frontend/services/rendering/format-response.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/rendering/format-response.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const {prepareContextResource} = require('../proxy');
  *
  * @return {Object} containing page variables
  */
-function formatPageResponse(result) {
+function formatPageResponse(result, pageAsPost = false) {
     const response = {};
 
     if (result.posts) {
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ function formatPageResponse(result) {
         }
     });
 
+    if (pageAsPost && response.page) {
+        response.post = response.page;
+    }
+
     return response;
 }
 
diff --git a/core/frontend/services/routing/controllers/static.js b/core/frontend/services/routing/controllers/static.js
index 2ac32e3316..9df5a62010 100644
--- a/core/frontend/services/routing/controllers/static.js
+++ b/core/frontend/services/routing/controllers/static.js
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ module.exports = function staticController(req, res, next) {
                 });
             }
 
-            renderer.renderer(req, res, renderer.formatResponse.entries(response));
+            // This flag solves the confusion about whether the output contains a post or page object by duplicating the objects
+            // This is not ideal, but will solve some long standing pain points with dynamic routing until we can overhaul it
+            const duplicatePagesAsPosts = true;
+            renderer.renderer(req, res, renderer.formatResponse.entries(response, duplicatePagesAsPosts));
         })
         .catch(renderer.handleError(next));
 };