is the_content() working?

i hadn’t touched the wordpress core (as i mentioned above) but here is the relevant code anyway

single.php (i commented out the original code to debug; no avail – there is simply no output from the_content)

<div class="entry-content">
<!--		<?php the_content( __('<p>Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>', 'arras') ); ?>  -->
		<?php the_content(); ?>
        <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => __('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'arras'),
			'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
		</div>

i use the Arras theme and so this was my home.php which also stopped working.

<span class="featured-entry">
                    <span class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
                    <span class="entry-summary"><?php echo arras_strip_content(get_the_excerpt(), 20); ?></span>
					<span class="progress"></span>
                </span>

sorry folks i think its pretty clear that the_content is supposed to run from my server, but i didnt touch any of it so i really cant figure out why its not outputting a single thing.

no, no, i didnt touch this thing before it stopped working.. i’m not even sure why i put up the code since its clearly not the problem but everyone else seems to do it on the forums.

btw i also did the whole deactivate plugin business – zilch.