{"id":25626,"date":"2021-12-24T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25626"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:32:31","slug":"the-anonymous-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/12\/24\/the-anonymous-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anonymous Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1549,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Die_Hard&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228182955\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Die_Hard&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 20:43:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:42:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1550,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Die_Hard_2&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260219044317\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Die_Hard_2&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 20:43:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1551,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301061609\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 20:43:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1552,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Live_Free_or_Die_Hard&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260207210226\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Live_Free_or_Die_Hard&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 20:43:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1553,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/A_Good_Day_to_Die_Hard&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251231081145\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/A_Good_Day_to_Die_Hard&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 20:43:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:42:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:07:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A hundred million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While McClane\u2019s wife is in the first couple films, and his kids are in several, to my memory, this is the only mention of McClane\u2019s sister in the entire Die Hard franchise.<\/p>\n<p>I figure this is because thanks to his smart-ass, cocky attitude, she never got along <em>that<\/em> well with her older brother, and then after he got famous for being all macho at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Hard\" title=\"Wikipedia: Die Hard\">that terrorist thing in LA<\/a>, it was even worse. All anyone ever wanted to talk to her about was her annoying older brother, and she was just so over it. Then again <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Hard_2\" title=\"Wikipedia: Die Hard 2\">at the airport<\/a>, and yet again <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance\" title=\"Wikipedia: Die Hard With a Vengeance\">in New York<\/a>? That was just too much, and she finally changed her name and cut off contact entirely. He could pretend to be a superhero all he liked, but she didn\u2019t have to be a part of it &#8211; and after hearing about what he ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Live_Free_or_Die_Hard\" title=\"Wikipedia: Live Free or Die Hard\">putting her<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Good_Day_to_Die_Hard\" title=\"Wikipedia: A Good Day to Die Hard\">niblings through<\/a>, she was even more sure she\u2019d made the right decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[2262],"class_list":["post-25626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-die-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}