{"id":8204,"date":"2025-06-24T02:23:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:23:54","slug":"repost-the-curious-origins-of-the-word-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/repost-the-curious-origins-of-the-word-scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:\u00a0The Curious Origins of the Word \u2018Scapegoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingliterature.com\/2025\/06\/scapegoat-etymology\/\">The Curious Origins of the Word \u2018Scapegoat\u2019<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The term \u2018scapegoat\u2019 is well-known: it refers to an innocent person who has to carry the blame for something on behalf of other people. As the\u00a0<em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0defines the word: the \u2018scapegoat\u2019 is \u2018one of two goats that was chosen by lot to be sent alive into the wilderness, the sins of the people having been symbolically laid upon it, while the other was appointed to be sacrificed.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curious Origins of the Word \u2018Scapegoat\u2019 By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The term \u2018scapegoat\u2019 is well-known: it refers to an innocent person who has to carry the blame for something on behalf of other people. As the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary\u00a0defines the word: the \u2018scapegoat\u2019 is \u2018one of two goats that was chosen by lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/repost-the-curious-origins-of-the-word-scapegoat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:\u00a0The Curious Origins of the Word \u2018Scapegoat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8205,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}