{"id":1503,"date":"2012-08-07T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2012-08-07T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:04:55","slug":"chatterbrain-honey-are-you-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Chatterbrain: Honey, are you awake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> An idea that pops into your head just before you fall asleep, which is so big and brilliant, or else so dark and scary, that it keeps you awake all night long. <em>v.<\/em> To lie awake in bed with a head full of big dreams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/idea.gif\" alt=\"Honey, are you awake?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chatterbrain<\/strong>:  \/<em>chat-er-breyn<\/em>\/ Jim hates it when Jill has an idea just before they fall asleep. She is such a chatterbrain that he can hear her thinking. Jim&#8217;s thought for the night &#8211; No sleep for Jim. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  chatter (to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber) + brain (the center of thought, understanding) a play on chatterbox <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idenia<\/strong>:  \/<em>eye-dee-nee-uh<\/em>\/ I have to take pills to sleep, otherwise i would have an idenia and lose a night of sleep. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  idea + insomnia <em>Created by:<\/em> chaok.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snoozeflash<\/strong>:  \/<em>snooz-flash<\/em>\/ Rachel was just about to drop off when she had a sudden snoozeflash which woke her up and sent her mind racing for the rest of the night. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  &#8220;snooze&#8221;, as in sleep and &#8220;flash&#8221; from &#8220;newsflash&#8221; <em>Created by:<\/em> Koekbroer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awakenspiration<\/strong>:  \/<em>away ken spir ay shun<\/em>\/ Not again, Joe moaned.  He had nary a new thought all day long, but instead got one as he started to try and sleep.  His awakenspiration not only kept him alert all night, but also his wife.  &#8220;I&#8217;m going to have to get on the night shift at work&#8221;, he thought&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Awake (not asleep) &amp; Inspiration (Idea;a product of your creative thinking)  <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=idea\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=idea<\/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: n. An idea that pops into your head just before you fall asleep, which is so big and brilliant, or else so dark and scary, that it keeps you awake all night long. v. To lie awake in bed with a head full of big dreams. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chatterbrain: Honey, are you awake?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1503"}],"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=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}