{"id":35275,"date":"2016-07-20T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35275"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:41:04","slug":"theres-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/07\/theres-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s a Suicide Epidemic in Utah \u2014 And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why&#8221;"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35276\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/800px-Salt_Lake_Valley_From_The_Air_1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35276\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35276\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/800px-Salt_Lake_Valley_From_The_Air_1.jpg\" alt=\"SL Valley vom Flugzeug\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salt Lake Valley from the air \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All sorts of explanations have been proposed. \u00a0Many, inevitably, have sought to blame the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> for the apparent problem. \u00a0Some have resorted to (occasionally quite dubious) statistics in order to lay it specifically at the feet of Mormon teachings about homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another suggestion:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/104096\/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why#.tq2jDbVdD\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/104096\/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why#.tq2jDbVdD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 All sorts of explanations have been proposed. \u00a0Many, inevitably, have sought to blame the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the apparent problem. \u00a0Some have resorted to (occasionally quite dubious) statistics in order to lay it specifically at the feet of Mormon teachings about homosexuality. \u00a0 Here\u2019s another suggestion: \u00a0 https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/104096\/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why#.tq2jDbVdD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;There&#039;s a Suicide Epidemic in Utah \u2014 And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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