{"id":35049,"date":"2020-08-19T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35049"},"modified":"2020-08-19T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:14:39","slug":"christmas-mickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/08\/19\/christmas-mickey\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Mickey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"This isn’t the typical Truck Mascot in that the stuffed animal isn’t lashed to the front or grill of a truck, but it was close enough to count. Mickey was tied to the back of a landscaper’s trailer which was being towed by a truck somewhere in Southwest Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t the typical Truck Mascot in that the stuffed animal isn’t lashed to the front or grill of a truck, but it was close enough to count. Mickey was tied to the back of a landscaper’s trailer which was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[86,476,4966,4965,828,762,1150,477,2760],"class_list":["post-35049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-christmas","tag-city","tag-landscaper","tag-mickey-mouse","tag-trash","tag-truck","tag-truck-mascot","tag-urban","tag-urban-phenomena"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-97j","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":35049,"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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Truck Mascots are usually discarded toys that generally commercial truckers lash to the grills of their vehicles to become sort of like flying maidens on a ships of old. 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