{"id":223,"date":"2015-11-11T02:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=223"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:28:29","slug":"stranger-no-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/11\/stranger-no-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rajendran by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14293011679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14293011679_8a65b2fefe_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rajendran\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rajendran seemed like the quiet type &#8211; he had a small cart outside the fruit market with half a dozen jackfruits on it, which he was painstakingly cutting into usable portions for sale. Apparently cutting these things into portions so that they can be eaten is quite a labor-intensive operation that takes some practice &#8211; I blog about it elsewhere at <a href=\"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3118\" target=\"_blank\">tazmpictures.com<\/a> (see the video) &#8211; and Rajendran was intensely focused on the task, only pausing to look at the camera when I asked him to.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rajendran by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14476268301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14476268301_06ef74fd95_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rajendran\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rajendran by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14293057648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14293057648_5f6349f967_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rajendran\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cutting Jack Fruit by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14293011879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14293011879_ff995e6ca6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cutting Jack Fruit\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajendran seemed like the quiet type &#8211; he had a small cart outside the fruit market with half a dozen jackfruits on it, which he was painstakingly cutting into usable portions for sale. Apparently cutting these things into portions so that they can be eaten is quite a labor-intensive operation that takes some practice &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3,4,82,76,9,63],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-india","tag-jackfruit","tag-koyambedu","tag-portrait","tag-vendor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}