{"id":7430,"date":"2012-04-30T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:33","slug":"man-yellow-hat-forsaken-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/04\/30\/man-yellow-hat-forsaken-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in the Yellow Hat, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I haven’t had much luck with this category having not spotted a Truck Mascot<\/strong> in quite some time. Private trash haulers are usually good for this urban phenomena of lashing discarded stuffed animals to the grills of their trucks, but I haven’t seen one in so long I was starting to suspect that there was some new governmental regulation barring the practice and spoiling my fun. I always have my camera on me but no luck.<\/p>\n

That is until I spied this fellow lashed to a pickup in a Save-A-Lot<\/strong> parking lot on Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s unusual to see a Truck Mascot lashed to a smaller truck and such a large one as poor Curious George<\/strong><\/em> here, but I appreciated the effort. I seriously doubt that the truck’s owner meant to mock the Crucifixion. I just think that he couldn’t stand to see everybody’s favorite children’s book chimpanzee meet an ignominious fate in a landfill and proudly mounted the critter to his grill.<\/p>\n

Thanks, anonymous truck driver! You made my day!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t had much luck with this category having not spotted a Truck Mascot in quite some time. Private trash haulers are usually good for this urban phenomena of lashing discarded stuffed animals to the grills of their trucks, but … 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":[1492,1491,1488,1493,1490,1436,1489,105],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-childrens-book","tag-chimpanzee","tag-crucifixion","tag-curious-george","tag-iconography","tag-monkey","tag-religious","tag-south-philly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1VQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15122,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/16\/the-archetypal-truck-mascot\/","url_meta":{"origin":7430,"position":0},"title":"The Archetypal Truck Mascot","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I chased after a garbage truck dressed in my pajamas. 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