ExecuteOrDelay Function Not Working on Published Pages

Question

I'm having incredible difficulty attempting to make a jQuery script run when a page is published. I have utilized a multitude of variants of ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded and SP.SOD functions to no avail. Everything always works in Edit Mode, but never during Display. As I have publishing features turned on, whenever I debug on a published page I can see that SP.js is actually already loaded regardless if my script calls for it or not. I am all out of ideas as to why this does not run. Please look at one iteration of the code below.

$(document).ready(function () {
    SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(newQuick, "SP.js");
    function newQuick() {
        var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
        var parent = $("#zz12_V4QuickLaunchMenu > ul > li:has('ul')");
        parent.find("span.menu-item-text:first").append("&nbsp; &nbsp;<i class='fa fa-angle-down' aria-hidden='true'></i>");
        parent.closest("li").find("> ul").hide();

        parent.click(function(){
        var childUL = $(this).closest("li").find("> ul");
        var isVisible = childUL.is(":visible");

        if (isVisible) {
        childUL.slideUp();
        }
        else {
        childUL.slideDown();
        }
    });

    }

});

If it helps, this is how the code is referenced in my custom masterpage:

 <!--SPM:<SharePoint:CssRegistration runat="server" ID="CssRegistration1" Name="&lt;% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/drkBlue/css/drkblue.css %&gt;" after="corev15.css" />-->
        <!--SPM:<SharePoint:ScriptLink runat="server" ID="jQuery" Language="javascript" Name="~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/drkBlue/js/jquery-3.1.1.min.js" OnDemand="false" />-->
        <!--SPM:<SharePoint:ScriptLink runat="server" ID="accordion" Language="javascript" Name="~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/drkBlue/js/accordion.js" OnDemand="false" />-->
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/ecms/_catalogs/masterpage/drkBlue/font/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"/>

Answer 1

Upon further inspection, I figured out what the issue was for me. Quicklaunch in SharePoint has two different IDs for edit mode and display mode. Adjusting the ID for the jQuery selector resolved the issue.

Thanks to everyone for their continued help and input.