{"id":35111,"date":"2020-09-02T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35111"},"modified":"2020-09-02T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:54:56","slug":"look-out-here-comes-spiderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/09\/02\/look-out-here-comes-spiderman\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Out, Here Comes Spiderman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" 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\" data-image-title=\"truck-mascot-head-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/truck-mascot-head-2.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4202\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/truck-mascot-head-2.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/truck-mascot-head-2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/09\/02\/look-out-here-comes-spiderman\/spiderman-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Spiderman.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Spiderman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Spiderman.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35112\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Spiderman.jpg?resize=500%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Spiderman.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Spiderman.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Truck mascot on the front of a Philadelphia Sanitation truck, spotted on 11th &amp; Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truck mascot on the front of a Philadelphia Sanitation truck, spotted on 11th &amp; Washington Avenue. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4202,"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":[104,2093,757],"tags":[4981,4982,4297],"class_list":["post-35111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","category-truck-mascots","tag-philly-sanitation-department","tag-spiderman","tag-truck-mascots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-98j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15122,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/16\/the-archetypal-truck-mascot\/","url_meta":{"origin":35111,"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. What it was doing in my pajamas I'll never know. Recently a garbage truck went rolling up my street collecting the block's trash uncustomarily early. 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