Content Not Displaying In Pods Blocks

Okay, I’m tearing my hair out here. I must be missing some permissions or something somewhere.

I have a publisher website with a Pods custom data type of Book. Book has fields like book_cover, book_blurb, etc. I have created a template for the Single Page Book in WordPress (using the Neve theme Custom Layouts) and it is set to display if people are browsing the Books data type. I’m trying to place a Pods Single Item block on the page and have it display the book cover. It keeps coming up blank UNLESS I put an ID or Slug in the Block Options. Otherwise it’s blank both in the editor and on the actual page. If I put a shortcode of [pods name=”book” field=”book_blurb”] on the page and preview, then WordPress pulls a blurb from a random book, not the one I’m currently looking at.

There must be something I’m missing in the setup! I was having problems with Elementor as well seeing the pods data, and I switched because I thought Elementor was just not up to the task. Now I think there’s a setting somewhere I have missed. I’ve gone through and made sure all the Dynamic features are turned on. Rest API is turned on. Please help me.