{"id":3343,"date":"2010-08-25T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2010-08-25T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T19:41:09","slug":"worth-a-look-other-crazazy-things-1-in-5-americans-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/2010\/08\/25\/worth-a-look-other-crazazy-things-1-in-5-americans-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth a look: Other crazazy things 1 in 5 Americans\u00a0believe"},"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><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/24\/one-in-five-americans-believe_n_691843.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ross Luippold over at HuffPo has a great piece on some of the other wackadoodle things 1 in 5 Americans believe<\/a>, in addition to the \u201cfact\u201d that President Obama is a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 in 5 Americans can\u2019t identify the United States on a map. (No, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/13828\/saturday-night-live-really-with-seth-and-amy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">REALLY<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>1 in 5 Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. (No word on how many believe the Earth is flat.)<\/li>\n<li>1 in 5 Americans believe the lottery is a sound financial investment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Luippold over at HuffPo has a great piece on some of the other wackadoodle things 1 in 5 Americans believe, in addition to the \u201cfact\u201d that President Obama is a Muslim. They include: 1 in 5 Americans can\u2019t identify the United States on a map. (No, REALLY.) 1 in 5 Americans believe the sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godstuff-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Worth a look: Other crazazy things 1 in 5 Americans\u00a0believe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ross Luippold over at HuffPo has a great piece on some of the other wackadoodle things 1 in 5 Americans believe, in addition to the &quot;fact&quot; that President\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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