{"id":10565,"date":"2025-12-01T18:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/?page_id=10565"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:33:21","slug":"business-card","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/books-2\/business-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10565\" class=\"elementor elementor-10565\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8ee3be e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e8ee3be\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5eb84c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d5eb84c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6b2aa6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e6b2aa6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Business Card<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 0.9rem;\">Translated by Leo Shtutin; Published in <strong>Taiwan&amp;Masticadores<\/strong><\/p>\nFor years now, someone\u2019s business card has lain on my desk. How it came into my possession I have not the faintest. I do not recall anybody handing it to me. Nor am I familiar with the name it bears. My efforts to identify its owner have yielded no fruit. I made enquiries, but the name meant nothing to my acquaintances.\n\nI scrutinise the card often, curious to whom it belongs. Perhaps some ragman, his eye on my faded frock coat, palmed it off on me at a flea market? Or could a hapless follower of Aesculapius have hoped that I might turn to him for assistance during a bout of the shakes?\n\nWhy do I not dial the telephone number neatly printed underneath the name? What am I afraid of? Could it be that I am just not desperate enough?..\n\nThe day before yesterday I died. My daughter, preoccupied with the funeral arrangements and searching for the requisite \u2019phone number, plucked the card from my desk. She dialled the number. The call went through to an undertaker\u2019s.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Card Translated by Leo Shtutin; Published in Taiwan&amp;Masticadores For years now, someone\u2019s business card has lain on my desk. How it came into my possession I have not the faintest. I do not recall anybody handing it to me. Nor am I familiar with the name it bears. My efforts to identify its owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":10056,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21338,"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10565\/revisions\/21338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidgop.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}