{"id":9252,"date":"2026-10-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:01:36","slug":"mischief-night-minis-2-the-skeleton-who-stayed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/mischief-night-minis-2-the-skeleton-who-stayed-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischief Night Minis #2: The Skeleton Who Stayed Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s time for another <strong>Mischief Night Mini!<\/strong> This week, Lucy has a Halloween joke for Tim. Unfortunately for him, it&#8217;s a real bone-rattler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-1200x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-1200x744.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-640x397.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-1536x952.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-2048x1269.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002-600x372.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lucy:<\/strong> &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t the skeleton go trick-or-treating?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tim:<\/strong> &#8220;Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lucy:<\/strong> &#8220;He didn&#8217;t have the guts!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tim:<\/strong> &#8220;That&#8217;s terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, Tim might have a point. \ud83d\ude02 But let&#8217;s be honest, Halloween wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a few terrible jokes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Got a favorite Halloween joke of your own? Share it with us! We&#8217;re always looking for more jokes to add to the Mischief Night Minis collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you missed the first <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/introducing-mischief-night-minis-%f0%9f%8e%83\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9232\">Mischief Night Mini<\/a>, be sure to check it out, too. There&#8217;s plenty more mischief where that came from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another Mischief Night Mini! This week, Lucy has a Halloween joke for Tim. Unfortunately for him, it&#8217;s a real bone-rattler. Lucy: &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t the skeleton go trick-or-treating?&#8221; Tim: &#8220;Why?&#8221; Lucy: &#8220;He didn&#8217;t have the guts!&#8221; Tim: &#8220;That&#8217;s terrible.&#8221; Okay, Tim might have a point. \ud83d\ude02 But let&#8217;s be honest, Halloween wouldn&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9253,"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":[1,465],"tags":[12,204,1363,79,147,987,1362],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-childrens-books","tag-blog-2","tag-books","tag-comic-strip","tag-comics","tag-family","tag-mischief-night","tag-mischief-night-minis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-2pe","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mischief-Night-Minis-002.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}