Okay this is another test post on the daveverse site. Turns out it was a good thing to post the last one because it revealed a bug, apparently, in wordpress.com? No kidding. I understand how that goes, I'm now running a server that's much more complex than anything I've tried to manage before. It runs all the time, and does its thing, but there are definitely bugs in there.
Anyway, I'm working on discourse again, after blowing my head up a few times getting very mixed signals from the work with id's emanating from RSS feeds.
So this test will let us see, in the debugger, exactly what data is coming from WordLand about a post that is being replied to. It's supposed to get the URL of the post, and the id's of the site and post. From there we will be able to notify the author of the post being replied to that there is a reply, and where they can read it. That will be a URL and id's for the reply post. This email will let them read it, and decide what if anything to do. That's the next plateau I want to get to.
Result of test: this is what's available inReplyTo as part of the draft object wpIdentity gets.

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