Why is everything on my blog suddenly italicized?

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  japaneseliterature · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 5:41 pm

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  I just posted a new entry on this blog:

  http://japanesetranslations.wordpress.com/

  Now everything except the text of that entry is displayed in italics on the page, from the text of the other entries to the togs to the links on the side bar.

  I cleared the cache and cookies for my main browser (Firefox), but nothing changed, and the italics appear on other browsers and other computers.

  Since I thought this might be a feature of the theme, I enabled live previews of other themes, but the strange italicization issue carried over to the new themes as well.

  I don’t think I did anything weird when I posted the most recent entry, and I certainly didn’t change any of the blog settings. What’s going on?

  Thanks for your help and for your attention.
  Blog url: http://japanesetranslations.wordpress.com/

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 5:45 pm

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  My guess would be that you left a tag open somewhere at the end of that recent post.

  Try editing or deleting it and see what happens.

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  japaneseliterature · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 5:48 pm

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  All of the tags on that entry seem to be working fine. It’s just everything *outside* of the entry that is italicized. All text everywhere on the entire blog is now italicized – except for the text of the top entry.

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 5:51 pm

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  Yes, but if there is an open/unclosed tag at the end of that post, it could affect everything after that.

  I haven’t looked at the source code for it, so I’m just guessing for now.

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  japaneseliterature · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 5:53 pm

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  I re-checked the source code, and everything looked fine.

  After checking the source code and changing nothing, I looked at the blog again and everything was fine.

  A ghost in the machine, perhaps?

  Thanks for your help anyway!

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 6:02 pm

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  A ghost in the machine, perhaps?

  Well, Halloween IS approaching…….