Widget isn't appearing on blog

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  culturallife · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 6:56 pm

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  Hi, I’m writing a post about This American Life at the moment and wanted to use the widget they offer so anyone can embed any episode of This American Life into a web page or blog. I copied and pasted the HTML script into my blog post but the This American Life player is not showing up when I preview the blog. I’m a newbie to this sort of thing — am I doing something wrong?

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  culturallife · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 6:57 pm

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  PS. This is the HTLM I am trying to embed into my blog:

  <script src=”http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/widget/widget.min.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
  <div id=”this-american-life-423″ class=”this-american-life” style=”width:540px;”></div>

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  culturallife · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 6:58 pm

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  *typo: HTML

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  timethief · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 7:01 pm

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  We cannot use JavaScript widgets on free hosted WordPress.com blogs for security reasons. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

  To have audio on your blog see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/

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  culturallife · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 7:09 pm

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  Thanks timethief. I had a read through the link you provided but I’m unsure how else I can embed the This American Life audio without breaching copyright.

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  culturallife · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 7:12 pm

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  PS. If I use the SoundCloud Audio Player to embed the audio in my blog, I presume that’s okay with all copyright holders?

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 8:29 pm

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  It may or it may not. Almost certainly it’s okay, but I’ve seen a very few media organizations go nuts if the actual digital delivery system varies. I say try it.