{"id":62777,"date":"2021-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/62777\/14-ways-you-celebrated-lebanons-independence-day-as-a-kid"},"modified":"2021-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"14-ways-you-celebrated-lebanons-independence-day-as-a-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/62777\/14-ways-you-celebrated-lebanons-independence-day-as-a-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Ways You Celebrated Lebanon&#8217;s Independence Day As A Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days when we used to wholeheartedly celebrate Independence Day. Remember how schools used to organize two-hour long ceremonies? The students raising the flag were the big shots that everyone gossiped about. Here are 14 throwbacks we had about celebrating Independence Day at Lebanese schools. What are yours?<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 1. Eating free man&#8217;ouche at school <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/images\/f9274045c66aaf405212683649ede038\/tenor.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Independence Day = a saj station at work. Couple with juice for ultimate experience. <\/p>\n<p>  <b> 2. Wearing the flag as a hat <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/madonnas-surprise-prerelease-songs-off-album-are-doing-really-frickin-well.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b> 3. Learning the lyrics to the anthem and saying them like a poem <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  But it was still melodic.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 4. Wearing red, white, and green as a patriotic fashion statement <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HYQPdKw.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  And your mom low-key stressing about the fact that you don&#8217;t have any red clothes. <\/p>\n<p>   <b> 5. Learning about the meaning of each flag color <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  White is for peace and purity, red for martyrdom, and green for our cedars. Good times.<\/p>\n<p>   <b> 6. Wearing an army uniform <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/RgAl2ESJFnIQ0\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b> 7. Singing \u201ctam tam tam\u201d in your heart because the teacher won\u2019t let you do it <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  You felt like a lil rebel didn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. Dabke-ing with your class <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  The party of the century.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 9. Jamming to <i>raje3 yet3amar lebnen<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gifer.com\/wG5.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>10. Lebanese flag face-painting <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  As soon as you walk in<\/p>\n<p>  Your mom: <i> \u201cFout(eh) ghassel(eh) weja\/ik hala2\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n<p>  <b> 11. Watching the military parade and mimicking it with your family <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/images\/5f074c450943eb11a386cf4c34096337\/tenor.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>12. Having to stand in the sun for a straight two hours during the school ceremony <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  But that\u2019s fine cause that meant no French or Arabic class this morning.<\/p>\n<p>  <b> 13. Your teacher giving you a <b>kebbeh<\/i> cooking workshop <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/iDrTa54K99Cmc\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b> 14. Throwing lebanese picnic brunches among classmates <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  You get the Pepsi and the chips, I get the mini pizza and labne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days when we used to wholeheartedly celebrate Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":430051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-62777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14 Ways You Celebrated Lebanon&#039;s Independence Day As A Kid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gone are the days when we used to 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