{"id":67,"date":"2011-06-03T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-05-21T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T05:11:11","slug":"a-metaphor-for-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/a-metaphor-for-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"a metaphor for Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no hidden fact that Lebanon is a country built by the hands of generations raised on <em>Picon Cheese. <\/em>Lebanese people adore the cheese. Expats take it with them when they travel.<\/p>\n<p>In the diaspora, <em>Picon <\/em>is a reminder of home. <em>Picon <\/em>is a symbol of Lebanese identity. <em>Picon <\/em>is both a fashion and a status statement.<\/p>\n<p>So why not look at <em>Picon <\/em>as a metaphor for Lebanon? It makes sense:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68\" title=\"picon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picon-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picon-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picon.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Picon<\/em>&#8216;s packaging shows snow-capped mountains in the background and green pastures in the foreground. To the Lebanese people, these might as well be the Cedar Mountains and the Bekaa Valley. Lebanese people always brag about how their country allows you to &#8216;go skiing in the morning and swimming in the afternoon&#8217;. The <em>Picon <\/em>package testifies to that.<\/li>\n<li>Open the pack, and you will find yet another symbol for lebanon. On the outside, it&#8217;s a round pack with beautiful scenery. But open the pack and you will see that it contains divided portions. Yes, collectively they make up <em>Picon<\/em>, but they are divided units that happen to be together inside the pack. They have to coexist due to circumstance, which, against their will, has placed them together inside this pack.<\/li>\n<li>Each portion is individually wrapped. Like Lebanon, <em>Picon <\/em>is made up of individual portions wrapped in a manner that does not allow them to interact with each other. They don&#8217;t touch. They don&#8217;t communicate. They just sit together inside the box that looks very beautiful on the outside. They like to think they&#8217;re different from one another; maybe they&#8217;re fooled by their gold-colored wrapping?<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget to store <em>Picon <\/em>in a cool, dry place. Because <em>Picon<\/em>, just like Lebanon, will go sour if things heat up.<\/li>\n<li>And lastly, <em>Picon <\/em>likes to believe it&#8217;s French. The reality is that it&#8217;s actually manufactured in an Arab country under license from France.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Lebanon, Picon is made up of individual portions wrapped in a manner that does not allow them to interact with each other. They don&#8217;t touch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,33,34,35,32,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}