{"id":984759,"date":"2022-02-10T15:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/10\/portland-pickles-face-dill-emma-over-stolen-mascot-costume\/"},"modified":"2022-02-10T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:25:46","slug":"portland-pickles-face-dill-emma-over-stolen-mascot-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/10\/portland-pickles-face-dill-emma-over-stolen-mascot-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Pickles face dill-emma over stolen mascot costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portland-Pickles-face-dill-emma-over-stolen-mascot-costume.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"YeEYVR3KESc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New twist in saga of missing Portland Pickles mascot\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YeEYVR3KESc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The Portland Pickles have found themselves in a dilemma after their beloved mascot Dillon was stolen by a porch pirate.<\/p>\n<p>The theft occurred right after the mascot costume got lost on a Delta Airlines flight from the Dominican Republic.\n<\/p>\n<p>The baseball team tweeted on Monday that they were &#8220;concerned&#8221; about their missing mascot, and again on Wednesday with what they called a &#8220;disappointing twist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airlines found the bag with the costume and then delivered it to the Pickles&#8217; office after hours.<\/p>\n<p>Camera footage caught a porch pirate swiping the package around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on Twitter shows the man with a backpack and over-ear headphones grabbing the bag and leaving with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just want him back, he&#8217;s irreplaceable,&#8221; General Manager Ross Campbell told KOIN. &#8220;Dillon is as weird as Portland is, so it just fits in really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mascot has been on tour with the team to Spain, Britain, Monaco, and the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Pickles often make jokes on its Twitter account, resulting in some questioning if the stolen costume has been a publicity stunt. But a real police report was filed with the Portland Police Bureau.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10 (UPI) &#8212; The Portland Pickles have found themselves in a dilemma after their beloved mascot Dillon was stolen by a porch pirate. The theft occurred right after the mascot costume got lost on a Delta Airlines flight from the Dominican Republic. The baseball team tweeted on Monday that they were &#8220;concerned&#8221; about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}