I'm editing a page to display new posts instead of pages, so far so good. The only thing that hasn't translated over to the posts is the return from the_excerpt(). In fact, everything else is returned fine. This is really confusing me, so I would love it if someone could take a look at this code as it's beginning to grate on me. As far as I can tell, it is within "the loop."
Here's a link to the code.
Here's a picture of the annoyance, it's even cheeky enough to bring back the read more link.