Hitokage4

I solved this myself: for future people finding this, if you put the emails without any spaces, but with commas between, like the following, it will work:

email,email,email,email

I managed to figure it out though possibly not the most elegant solution!

<?php query_posts("orderby=rand&cat=8&posts_per_page=1"); ?>
                                    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
                                        <div id="featured_work">
                                        	<?php the_title(); ?>
                                            <?php the_content();?>
                                            <?php $already_displayed = get_the_ID(); ?>
                                        </div>
                                    <?php endwhile;?>
                                <?php wp_reset_query(); //Reset Query ?>
                                <?php query_posts("orderby=rand&cat=8"); ?>
                                    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
                                    	<?php if(get_the_ID() == $already_displayed){ continue; } ?>
                                        <div id="pw_columns">
                                        	<?php the_title(); ?>
                                        	<?php  if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {  // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it. ?>
                                                <div class="init"><a href="<?php get_permalink();?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('case-thumb'); ?></a></div>
                                            <?php } ?>
                                        </div>
                                    <?php endwhile;?>
                                <?php wp_reset_query(); //Reset Query ?>

So now I have this:

<div id="resource">
    	<?php get_posts(array('showposts' => 20, 'post_parent' => 1950, 'post_type' => 'page')); while (have_posts()) { the_post(); ?>
        	<?php
				$args = array( 'numberposts' => 3 );
				$lastposts = get_posts( $args );
				foreach($lastposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
					<div class="video_thumbnail"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title();?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('case-thumb'); ?></a></div>
					<div class="video_title"><span class="rc-label"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/blinds-subpage-image.jpg&w=120&h=120&zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a></span>
					<?php the_content();?>
					<a class="rc-button" target="_blank" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Learn More</a></div><div class="clear"></div>
				<?php endforeach; ?>
		<?php } ?>
	</div>

Which is… actually pulling posts, not PAGES as I need. (and had working with ‘query_posts’).

If I change my query_posts to get_posts, and as outlined in the page you sent change the_content to post_content, the_title to post_title, and there isn’t even an open for the thumbnail, it promptly breaks the entire page.

Oh sorry I misunderstood. This:

<?php
		/* Run the loop to output the page.
		 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
		 * called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.
		 */
		get_template_part( 'loop', 'page' );
	?>

is separate above the loop I am using. Otherwise the code I wrote, the get sidebar, and get footer are the only other PHP on the page.