{"id":4206,"date":"2011-09-28T06:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T11:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:15:31","slug":"truck-mascots-kermit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/28\/truck-mascots-kermit\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Mascots – Kermit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Here’s another in our series of Truck Mascots. This time it’s Kermit lashed to the front of a huge commercial garbage truck that we spotted on 9th Street in Philadelphia’s Italian Market.
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Here’s another in our series of Truck Mascots. This time it’s Kermit lashed to the front of a huge commercial garbage truck that we spotted on 9th Street in Philadelphia’s Italian Market.<\/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":[3675,826,827,3669,828,762],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-italian-market","tag-kermit","tag-muppet","tag-philadelphia","tag-trash","tag-truck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-15Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44710,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/truck-mascots-bart-simpson\/","url_meta":{"origin":4206,"position":0},"title":"Truck Mascots – Bart Simpson","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"While I was out and about with The Boy, he spotted Homer and Marge's kid perched on the hitch of a delivery truck. 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