Hi there…having a similar experience…thanks for the pointer to JSON API…the widget is connecting with the remote blog, but not displaying on my page???
http://www.decodingcreativity.com/
widget area is at bottom of page above footer [the hard link you see is text i entered]
trying to pull posts from blog.decodingcreativity.com/
the API is enabled there as well
any suggestions about how to get this to work? Thanks!