{"id":1055,"date":"2009-06-10T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2009-06-03T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:28:51","slug":"wordpress-title-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/06\/10\/wordpress-title-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Title Glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen this on your own blog? You create a blog post and then when you publish it and click on the title of the post to see the separate post page you get a message saying the post cannot be found? What causes that? How can you fix it?<\/p>\n<p>First remember that blogs communicate in the world of HTML and each blog post is really an entry in a database. 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