in RST, single ticks don't do anything to effect the display, so this renders as:
![screen shot 2014-01-17 at 2 57 00 pm](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1985317/1943899/8f5d9026-7fb1-11e3-8d51-98b22a88f494.png)

Use double ticks to put them in monospace. At minimum, the rendered view should somehow offset "your-block" better, either double ticks, or quotes.