Good to see. Sounds like your host may have updated the server engine then ran something to clear the unrecognized spaces so you noticed it in the lag between the two.
Why would it only have a problem on 2 pages? Why didn’t any of the other pages have problems when they are formatted the same way and go through exactly the same servers, engines, etc?
I should explain. When the links weren’t working it was a deal where the URL (that I originally associated with the clickable link when I created the post) had been changed by somebody else so that a different URL was associated with the words you click on. When I realized the URL it was trying to go to when I clicked was not the same URL as the words I was clicking on, I went in manually and reset the URL’s associated with that clickable link (set the URL’s back to match the link showing on the screen, like it was when I first created the post), and then they both worked.
So it was like somebody had changed the URL’s in my post, and when I manually changed the URL’s back to what they had originally been, everything worked again.