Tumblr Post Date as Permalink?

Can I set the date of each post as a permalink on my Tumblr site? I have been tinkering in here quite a bit trying to teach myself a bit of HTML + CSS. For this page the permalinks are still working. I have removed most of the others as I am trying to strip this down to its most minimal essence. Of course, this has created multiple problems…

But, what I could use help doing, is just creating a permalink from the post of each date and not clutter the design up with icons (as is the generic Tumblr template style).

I hope this makes sense.