{"id":16284,"date":"2012-04-22T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16284"},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:43:52","slug":"how-to-mangle-a-bible-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-mangle-a-bible-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to mangle a Bible translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Replace phrases that resonate with meaning with politically correct twaddle.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the <a title=\"Common English Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commonenglishbible.com\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Common English Bible (CEB)<\/a> renders \u201cSon of Man\u201d \u201cHuman One\u201d in the interests of removing <em>exclusive language.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If that were not enough to recommend avoiding the CEB, the Anglican Church of Canada is <a href=\"http:\/\/thecommunity.anglican.ca\/liturgy\/1539\/reading-the-bible-in-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">considering adding it<\/a> to its list of approved translations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replace phrases that resonate with meaning with politically correct twaddle. For example, the Common English Bible (CEB) renders \u201cSon of Man\u201d \u201cHuman One\u201d in the interests of removing exclusive language. If that were not enough to recommend avoiding the CEB, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-mangle-a-bible-translation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[483,620],"class_list":["post-16284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","tag-bible-translations","tag-common-english-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}