{"id":738,"date":"2026-04-30T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:33:06","slug":"fake-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":";)fake hAPPy:("},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a pill for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So say the ones who use 6.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hours a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTake this pill for that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pill\u2019s effects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So say the ones who just<\/p>\n\n\n\n

can\u2019t accept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201c3 in the morning and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 at night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Say the ones on a constant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

dopamine high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a pill for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw today<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from my bedroom of addiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

many on display.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

To sleep deeply at night, take <\/p>\n\n\n\n

this drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By morning, you need a new app <\/p>\n\n\n\n

to wake up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

An app to focus and distract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho needs pills?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just need a new app to distract with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

new thrills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA pill for this and that. But those<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have my apps and my fans on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

my 6-inch screen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an app for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So says I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should know because I<\/p>\n\n\n\n

escaped the lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere\u2019s a pill for everything.\u201d So they say. So say the ones who use 6.5 hours a day. \u201cTake this pill for that pill\u2019s effects.\u201d So say the ones who just can\u2019t accept. \u201c3 in the morning and 4 at night.\u201d Say the ones on a constant dopamine high. \u201cThere\u2019s a pill for everything. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[32,30,29,22,26,28],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-poetry","tag-education","tag-mental-health","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}