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OK, that worked, HOORAY!
But it caused another problem. Not sure why
The first line of the tpl file I had inserted
<{$block.title}>
so that it would display the title of the item.
the next line is your block image, modified as
![](<{$block.item_image}>)
So now it displays the image correctly, and the beginning text of the article, but it stopped showing the Title. Now sure why that's happening