When I do a Google search for my latest post title and click on it, I get a privacy warning:
Google crawls links. It must have crawled an incorrect link for your latest post because when I search for other posts, it works without the https (as it's supposed to). Example search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Extradite+Walter+Palmer%22+piedtype
It looks to me like Google picked up an HTTPS link for your latest post when it should not have. The only reason I can think of that it would have done that is that somewhere there is a broken link to that post using https:// instead of http:// (the working link). Clicking on the latest post from inside the blog at http://piedtype.com/ is working normally, so the broken link is not coming from there.
but what about all my readers? Won't they still see it?
It shouldn't for links that are picked up properly. There could be more going on here than I know about, but from what I can see so far, Google should be crawling your site normally and I don't know why it has the wrong link for your latest post.
Won't that kill or discourage readership?
Since the problem is only happening for the latest post, it shouldn't. To make sure it's not a bug or that it's because of something that is happening behind the scenes, can you check your next post to see if the same thing happens again? Or if other people are experiencing this, can you please make a note here and include a link to the post? This way, we can rule out this being a temporary glitch of some kind.
I paid for the custom domain name but WP won't support SSL on it!? Terrific.
I think many hosts charge extra for SSL. It's not something WordPress.com offers just yet, but it's something we'd like to in the future. Sorry we don't have it yet!