{"id":44953,"date":"2015-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/44953\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T04:44:03","slug":"holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/44953\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding A Mirror To The Country: Googling &#8216;How Can I?&#8217; In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>There are two sorts of know-how. The first is: actually knowing how to do something. And the second is called \u201cGoogle know-how.\u201d Who among us hasn\u2019t used the internet to learn how to do something? It\u2019s not just for practical tips, even answers to big existential type questions have been asked.<\/p>\n<p>  If you want to take the pulse of what\u2019s on the mind of the Lebanese, then you should head to Google and type in \u201cHow can I\u201d in the search bar. Here is the top for searches that come up. (Drumroll, please.) The top four cultural obsessions in Lebanon are:<\/p>\n<p>  <b>How Can I be Rich?<br \/>  How Can I Stop Eating?<br \/>  How Can I be Happy?<br \/>  How Can I Sleep?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/44953.png\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Since everyone is super busy these days, I took the liberty of reading a bunch of these websites and distilling the main advice given by the Google gods.<\/p>\n<p>  To be rich you should \u201cinvest and save your money.\u201d<br \/>  To stop eating you should ask yourself: \u201cAm I really hungry.\u201d<br \/>  To be happy you should \u201cchange your soul (sprit).\u201d ***<br \/>  To sleep you should \u201cinhale through your left nostril.\u201d <br \/>  *** The website said this could be achieved through meditation***<\/p>\n<p>  And there you have it, Lebanon. Your top four questions answered by Google.<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><big>There are two sorts of know-how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":415089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-44953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[53],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Holding A Mirror To The Country: Googling &#039;How Can I?&#039; In Lebanon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are two sorts of know-how.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/44953\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holding A Mirror To The Country: Googling &#039;How Can I?&#039; In Lebanon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are two sorts of know-how.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/44953\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beirut.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-21T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-11T04:44:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/44953.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"795\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"262\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/44953\\\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/44953\\\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Holding A Mirror To The Country: Googling &#8216;How Can I?&#8217; In Lebanon\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-21T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-11T04:44:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/44953\\\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":224,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/44953\\\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/44953.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/44953\\\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/44953\\\/holding-a-mirror-to-the-country-googling-how-can-i-in-lebanon\\\/\",\"name\":\"Holding A Mirror To The Country: Googling 'How Can I?' 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