Addendum: Went into the blogger account setup on WordPy and refetched the address of the blog. It did that fine. When I hit the small drop-down arrow next to the address bar to see and select the blog address I have two entries for the same blog address.
This time I selected the other one (the one that wasn't blue), composed a test blog entry, hit publish. This time I got a screen that said "Publishing", but it kept on and on publishing (it was only a one word test !!)

This time, back in X-Term, there's an error message "No Labels".