{"id":152,"date":"2015-11-10T22:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=152"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:30:36","slug":"stranger-no-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/10\/stranger-no-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Abdul Jabbar by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/12718772044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abdul Jabbar\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12718772044_7933dc60ba_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To those of us who have lived in colder climes, it always seems odd to think that people in Chennai are ever cold. But it&#8217;s quite common to see people covering their ears, especially, during these &#8220;cold&#8221; months, when the temperature rarely drops below 70 Fahrenheit. People can be seen wearing thin earmuffs, thick wool caps, and ear coverings like these. I ran into Abdul Jabbar at the flower market in the part of town called &#8220;Parry&#8217;s&#8221; &#8211; northerly in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those of us who have lived in colder climes, it always seems odd to think that people in Chennai are ever cold. But it&#8217;s quite common to see people covering their ears, especially, during these &#8220;cold&#8221; months, when the temperature rarely drops below 70 Fahrenheit. People can be seen wearing thin earmuffs, thick wool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,56,18,9],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","tag-chennai","tag-earmuffs","tag-flower-market","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}