{"id":1705,"date":"2013-05-07T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:05:32","slug":"sincourage-honey-you-just-ran-a-red-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Sincourage: Honey, you just ran a red light!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To unintentionally encourage bad behavior by responding to it in a manner that incites even worse behavior. <em>n.<\/em> A response designed to stop bad behavior, which paradoxically produces more of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/alpha.gif\" alt=\"Honey, you just ran a red light!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincourage<\/strong>:  \/<em>sin koor aj<\/em>\/ When Stan got behind the wheel, he took driving very personally and reacted badly to all bad situations.  His wife, Rosa, would inadvertantly sincourage his actions by stoking his fuels of outrage. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Sin (commit a fault) &amp; Encourage (promote;support) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reverbirate<\/strong>:  \/<em>re-VERB-eye-rayt<\/em>\/  It seemed that whenever Cindy would try to motivate her husband, Charlie, to behave more civilly, her words would only reverbirate in some dark corner of his psyche and have the opposite effect with him responding in even more outrageous manner. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  blend of &#8216;reverberate&#8217; (echo) and &#8216;irate&#8217; (angry) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=alpha\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=alpha<\/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 unintentionally encourage bad behavior by responding to it in a manner that incites even worse behavior. n. A response designed to stop bad behavior, which paradoxically produces more of it. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Sincourage: \/sin koor aj\/ When Stan got behind the wheel, he took driving very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sincourage: Honey, you just ran a red light!<\/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\/1705"}],"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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}