Publish Time, Read Time, Author, and Word Count not rendering correctly. [BUG]

[Normanras]

NOTE: I looked through the other issues and didn't see this elsewhere. I can also confirm that in my previous post to my hugo site a few weeks ago, this was not occurring.

Describe the bug
After updating PaperMod today, I noticed that in both running a local server and my production server the span that contains the publish time, time to read, author, and word count is not formatted correctly and now shows:

<span title='2023-11-15 08:08:49 -0500 EST'>November 15, 2023</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;6 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;1221 words&nbsp;·&nbsp;Me

When I inspect the element, it looks like the <span is being put inside double quotes, causing the HTML to not be rendered. I've included a screenshot below.

I originally noticed this when testing a new post that I published today, but looking back through my previous posts, it is occurring there as well. That's why I thought it might be a bug, since I hadn't changed anything in my hugo.toml nor have I edited those past posts.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
I wish I had a clear understanding of how this happened. The only thing I changed in my workflow is I went to my themes directory and ran hugo mod get -u and there were no errors in running that command.

Expected behavior:
The HTML to be rendered and the elements within that span to show correctly.

Repo/Source where this issue can be reproduced:
My repo is private, but you can see the bug here.

Screenshots

Additional context
None.

[adityatelange]

#1325

[Normanras]

Missed it! Thank you.