{"id":26661,"date":"2014-10-13T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=26661"},"modified":"2014-10-13T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:17:45","slug":"revolting-canaanites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/10\/revolting-canaanites.html","title":{"rendered":"Revolting Canaanites"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A student made a reference in an assignment to \u201crevolting Canaanites.\u201d From the context, I am quite sure that this was supposed to be \u201crebelling Canaanites\u201d and not a subjective judgment on the Canaanites themselves. But I sure did find it amusing! It seems that \u201crevolting\u201d is considered by <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/revolting\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some<\/a> to be a legitimate way of expressing \u201cengaging in revolt,\u201d while other dictionaries only indicate that it means \u201cdisgusting.\u201d Do you use \u201crevolting\u201d in both ways?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26663\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/10\/Ancient-revolting-civilians.png\" alt=\"Ancient revolting civilians\" width=\"674\" height=\"443\"><\/p>\n<p>Picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wargamesfoundry.com\/our-ranges\/civilians-18th-century-and-ancients\/ancient-civilians-collection-bcciv003\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wargames Foundry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student made a reference in an assignment to \u201crevolting Canaanites.\u201d From the context, I am quite sure that this was supposed to be \u201crebelling Canaanites\u201d and not a subjective judgment on the Canaanites themselves. 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