{"id":9615,"date":"2012-09-01T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:08:00","slug":"the-scrapmobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/01\/the-scrapmobile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scrapmobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>At the parking lot on 13th Street and Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the parking lot on 13th Street and Washington Avenue.<\/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":[1921,354,3669,1922,1920,347,1150],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-ford","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-scrapman","tag-tigger","tag-toy","tag-truck-mascot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2v5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4206,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/28\/truck-mascots-kermit\/","url_meta":{"origin":9615,"position":0},"title":"Truck Mascots – Kermit","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another in our series of Truck Mascots. 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