@mindctri Thanks for the advice.
I take a closer look at WP_Query. I do close my query after every call using wp_reset_query(); so maybe I’m okay
It turns out my issue was a caching issue. The first query is right…it didn’t make sense to me that it would not be working. So I experiment with some weird css (e.g. giving a pink background to my content) and and I didn’t see that on the page, I knew something else was up.
I had WP_Cache installed originally when the site was just a site. When I switched to wpmu, I turned all plugins off. WP_Cache is still off/deactivated on the network and on each individual site but there must be I did with WP_Cache as it is still caching pages
Anyone have any ideas for this one…