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Mickey’s pal, adorns a work truck in South Philly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mickey’s pal, adorns a work truck in South Philly.<\/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":[4,104,2093,757],"tags":[5373,4297,5374],"class_list":["post-38088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","category-truck-mascots","tag-donald-duck","tag-truck-mascots","tag-work-trucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9Uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4194,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/13\/truck-mascots\/","url_meta":{"origin":38088,"position":0},"title":"Truck Mascots","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a new category dedicated to the phenomena that I call Truck Mascots. 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