{"id":840,"date":"2009-05-04T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/05\/amazing-maps-of-us-by-sin-hot.html"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T10:43:02","slug":"amazing-maps-of-us-by-sin-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/05\/amazing-maps-of-us-by-sin-hot.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Maps of US by Sin &#8220;Hot Spots&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/photos\/galleries\/2009\/mar\/25\/seven-deadly-sins-nationwide-hot-spots\/\">Kansas State University researchers have mapped the concentration of different sin &#8220;hot spots.&#8221; <\/a>  Note how lust, pride and wrath are concentrated in the south, while greed seems strangely focused in the Northeast and California.   As for gluttony, it appears to be focused in three states.  Can you guess which?<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/lustmap.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lustmap.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/lustmap-thumb-550x423-4759.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"423\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nClick here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/photos\/galleries\/2009\/mar\/25\/seven-deadly-sins-nationwide-hot-spots\/\">all seven maps.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas State University researchers have mapped the concentration of different sin &#8220;hot spots.&#8221; Note how lust, pride and wrath are concentrated in the south, while greed seems strangely focused in the Northeast and California. As for gluttony, it appears to be focused in three states. Can you guess which? 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