{"id":14618,"date":"2013-10-16T06:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:38:06","slug":"a-mack-with-a-quack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/16\/a-mack-with-a-quack\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mack with a Quack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spotted this fowl truck mascot on 5th Street in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[757],"tags":[2102,2832,354,3669,2833,762,1150,480],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-east-coast","tag-garbage-truck","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philly","tag-truck","tag-truck-mascot","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21448,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/12\/24\/have-yourself-a-merry-little-truck-mascot\/","url_meta":{"origin":14618,"position":0},"title":"Have Yourself a Merry Little Truck Mascot","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"While this may not count as a true Truck Mascot being that the vehicle is not a truck but a school bus, I feel it's close enough. 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