{"id":47149,"date":"2026-02-24T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=47149"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:34:41","slug":"traffic-cone-snowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/traffic-cone-snowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Cone Snowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47150\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/traffic-cone-snowman\/snowmancone\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SnowmanCone.jpg?fit=500%2C903&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,903\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SnowmanCone\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SnowmanCone.jpg?fit=500%2C903&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47150 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SnowmanCone.jpg?resize=500%2C903&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SnowmanCone.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SnowmanCone.jpg?resize=166%2C300&amp;ssl=1 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This little urban snowman was found in the park down the street from our house. His traffic cone hat slays me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little urban snowman was found in the park down the street from our house. His traffic cone hat slays me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,104,2093],"tags":[6288,1160,105],"class_list":["post-47149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-blizzard-of-26","tag-snowman","tag-south-philly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-cgt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5679,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/22\/capewell-glass-negative-collection-swift-trial-severe-punishment-frosty-snowman\/","url_meta":{"origin":47149,"position":0},"title":"The Capewell Glass Negative Collection &#8211; The Swift Trial and Severe Punishment of Frosty the Snowman","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I continue posting a collection of glass negatives from 100 or so years ago. 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