Ok I think I figured out what may be the actual issue. I think it has nothing to do with deleting all the content.
I went to the portal back on the back end and turned on Javascript Console in chrome, and got this:
I’m using CloudFlare in Flexible mode cuz that’s what I use for all my sites.
I tried setting the ghost URL to https://myblog.com as recommended here:
but then the site won’t load at all and the browser says I got too many redirects
maybe there is some simple solution re: adding a page rule to cloudflare, or maybe i need to reconsider how I am handling my SSL