Howdy, Ryan:
[. . .]
> ;creates an undesirable result, as follows...
>
> make object! [ headline: "first headline" subheadline: "second
> headline" body: ["First paragraph here" "" "" "Then a second
> paragraph" " Another sentence" "" "" "A final paragraph" ""] ]
>
> ;For the "body" value, I would like the block to contain only
> individual paragraphs. Parsing by the following value (also
> above)...
You can always filter away empty strings from your body block:
obj/body: difference [""] obj/body
That doesn't address your question about parse, but I'm running out
of time.. :)
-jeff