{"id":24794,"date":"2018-12-21T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=24794"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:19","slug":"truck-mascots-the-holiday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/12\/21\/truck-mascots-the-holiday-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Mascots &#8211; The Holiday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" data-attachment-id=\"4202\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/13\/truck-mascots\/truck-mascot-head-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/truck-mascot-head-2.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/truck-mascot-head-2.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"24795\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/12\/21\/truck-mascots-the-holiday-edition\/pfd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PFD.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philadelphia Fire Department gets into the spirit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Fire Department gets into the spirit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[176,4,104,2093,757],"tags":[86,4593,3396,4594,4033],"class_list":["post-24794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","category-truck-mascots","tag-christmas","tag-fire-truck","tag-holidays","tag-philadelphia-fire-department","tag-wreath"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6rU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35111,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/09\/02\/look-out-here-comes-spiderman\/","url_meta":{"origin":24794,"position":0},"title":"Look 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These mascots are usually discarded toys or cheap plastic figures that commercial truckers lash to the front of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Truck Mascots&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Truck Mascots","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/truck-mascots\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jolly-Roger.jpg?fit=800%2C643&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jolly-Roger.jpg?fit=800%2C643&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jolly-Roger.jpg?fit=800%2C643&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jolly-Roger.jpg?fit=800%2C643&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21448,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/12\/24\/have-yourself-a-merry-little-truck-mascot\/","url_meta":{"origin":24794,"position":4},"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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