{"id":17074,"date":"2014-08-13T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17074"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:59:28","slug":"boxerbear-at-4th-and-bainbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/08\/13\/boxerbear-at-4th-and-bainbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxerbear at 4th and Bainbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"truck-mascot-head-2\"\"boxerbear\"<\/a>Here’s another fine example of the urban phenomena I call Truck Mascots<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. This fellow was adorning a commercial garbage truck making a pickup around 4th and Bainbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another fine example of the urban phenomena I call Truck Mascots. This fellow was adorning a commercial garbage truck making a pickup around 4th and Bainbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[757],"tags":[880,327,3669,1151,347,828,1152,1150,2760],"class_list":["post-17074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-garbage","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-refuse","tag-toy","tag-trash","tag-trash-truck","tag-truck-mascot","tag-urban-phenomena"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4ro","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15122,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/16\/the-archetypal-truck-mascot\/","url_meta":{"origin":17074,"position":0},"title":"The Archetypal Truck Mascot","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I chased after a garbage truck dressed in my pajamas. 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