{"id":4194,"date":"2011-09-13T06:04:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T11:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:36:57","slug":"truck-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/13\/truck-mascots\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Mascots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s a new category dedicated to the phenomena that I call Truck Mascots.<\/strong> This is when drivers or crews of industrial trucks, usually garbage trucks, find a discarded toy stuffed animal and lash it to the grill of their vehicles like some sort of modern variation of flying maidens on ships of old. These shots usually depend on whether Tina and I are packing a camera when we see them. Unfortunately, we’ve spied some truly remarkable examples of this urban trend when we didn’t have so much as a stinking camera phone. So, always remember to carry a camera!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tina snapped a Daffy Duck in a sailor suit on this huge dump truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a new category dedicated to the phenomena that I call Truck Mascots. This is when drivers or crews of industrial trucks, usually garbage trucks, find a discarded toy stuffed animal and lash it to the grill of their vehicles … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[757],"tags":[763,765,759,761,760,764,118,758,762,477],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-autocar","tag-blue-collar","tag-flying-maiden","tag-industrial","tag-mascot","tag-phenomena","tag-photography","tag-stuffed-animals","tag-truck","tag-urban"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-15E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19039,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/06\/17\/a-sad-shrek\/","url_meta":{"origin":4194,"position":0},"title":"A Sad Shrek","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another example of the urban phenomena I refer to as Truck Mascots. 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