{"id":17008,"date":"2014-08-05T03:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:59:23","slug":"trash-truck-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/08\/05\/trash-truck-king-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash Truck King Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I saw this on the street the other day, it vaguely reminded me of the sequence in King Kong<\/strong> where his captors have finally put him on stage in New York – “Don’t be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I saw this on the street the other day, it vaguely reminded me of the sequence in King Kong where his captors have finally put him on stage in New York – “Don’t be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4,104,757],"tags":[3255,1152],"class_list":["post-17008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-truck-mascots","tag-king-kong","tag-trash-truck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4qk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4206,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/28\/truck-mascots-kermit\/","url_meta":{"origin":17008,"position":0},"title":"Truck Mascots – Kermit","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another in our series of Truck Mascots. 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