{"id":1318,"date":"2011-10-12T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:00:06","slug":"opticynic-look-i-found-a-pretty-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Opticynic: Look I found a pretty flower."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To see joy and beauty where others only see complications, trouble and weeds. <em>n.<\/em> A moment of delight which dissipates as soon as it is shared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/dandelion.gif\" alt=\"Look I found a pretty flower.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opticynic<\/strong>:  \/<em>\u00c3\u00a4pt\u00c9\u2122sinik<\/em>\/ Gloria is a true football fan. Her favorite team doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give her much to cheer about. She is an opticynic whenever something good happens. If her team scores a touchdown she starts to celebrate but immediately expects and looks for a penalty flag. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  optimist (hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something) + cynic (a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hopetimism<\/strong>:  \/<em>hope tim izm<\/em>\/ Jill&#8217;s hopetimism that the pretty yellow flower she picked for her babysitter was soon squashed when she was told it was really a pesky dandelion. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Hope (be optimistic) &amp; Optimisim (a general disposition to expect the best in all things; the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=dandelion\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=dandelion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To see joy and beauty where others only see complications, trouble and weeds. n. A moment of delight which dissipates as soon as it is shared. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Opticynic: \/\u00c3\u00a4pt\u00c9\u2122sinik\/ Gloria is a true football fan. Her favorite team doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give her much to cheer about. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opticynic: Look I found a pretty flower.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}