{"id":43789,"date":"2024-09-12T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=43789"},"modified":"2024-09-12T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:27:06","slug":"small-truck-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/09\/12\/small-truck-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Truck Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the way home from work I spied this tiny example of what I like to call Truck Mascots<\/strong><\/em>. A truck mascot is a discarded stuffed animal or toy that is used to adorn large industrial trucks sort of like flying maidens on ships of old. If I am quick enough, I try to catch them with my camera. I caught this little fellow on a huge truck while sitting in traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way home from work I spied this tiny example of what I like to call Truck Mascots. A truck mascot is a discarded stuffed animal or toy that is used to adorn large industrial trucks sort of like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43790,"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":[757],"tags":[2512,761,3669,762,1150],"class_list":["post-43789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-animal","tag-industrial","tag-philadelphia","tag-truck","tag-truck-mascot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-boh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10702,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/12\/03\/the-truck-mascot-two-fer-or-halloween-aint-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":43789,"position":0},"title":"The Truck Mascot Two-Fer or Halloween Ain’t Over","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't seen a proper example of a truck mascot (i.e., a discarded stuffed animal or toy lashed to the grill of a large truck) in quite a while. 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