<< To see this post as it SHOULD be seen, click on the [View original] button (displayed on a phone by globe icon). >>
This post tests a workaround for a perversity in WP Reader.
Reader’s default way to display a post is OK for some blogs but disastrous for mine. In general, it is all too easy to get the default, rather than a display with the author’s actual theme and formatting.
If seen in Reader’s default rendering, the body of this post starts with a suggestion to click on the [View original] button. If this post is seen as it should be seen, that suggestion is replaced by white space. There may well be a more elegant workaround, findable by consulting the “happiness engineers” and/or careful study of blogs not mangled by Reader’s default. But I won’t have time to go down that rabbit hole in the foreseeable future.
Mellow Curmudgeon 
Your test lost, looks good to me, Mellow. Cheers.
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Oops, sorry for my typo. That should say “Your test post looks good to me, Mellow. ” My apologies.
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Thanks. Glad it looks good for somebody else, not just me.
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It is all a mystery to me.
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One of the weird things about WP is the fact that misbehavior is often specific to a blog or to a subscriber or to the pair: a blog and the poor sod trying to read it (or like or comment on it).
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I’m seeing this as an email.
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Interesting. WP stopped sending me e-mails of the posts in my subscription list years ago. (The switches are still nominally ON.) I started using Reader as a stop-gap and decided to stick with it. (Back then, Reader did not steer people toward a mangled rendering.) When I did get e-mails, they weren’t exactly like my posts but were almost always close enough, so I’m guessing that what you’re seeing has the body of the e-mailed post starting with a summary sentence on a pink background, maybe after a little more space than usual. Have I guessed right?
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Afraid I don’t recall how it looked, MC, only that I received and responded to it with the above comment. (I delete emails after reading them.)
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No sweat. You’ll get another e-mail soon, with a for-real post that uses the workaround.
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