{"id":241,"date":"2015-11-11T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=241"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:22:09","slug":"stranger-no-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/11\/stranger-no-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kelkatar by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14365044328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14365044328_b5e03c443c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Kelkatar\" width=\"516\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We met this fellow at Elliot Beach, close to our home in Chennai. He was just watching the ocean when I asked for his photo:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boat by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14365044248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14365044248_bb4bf5b03e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Boat\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After I snapped his picture with an old film camera (not <em>that<\/em> old &#8211; a 90&#8217;s era Ricoh) he followed us around from a distance as we spent the next half hour or so taking pictures of beach-goers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met this fellow at Elliot Beach, close to our home in Chennai. He was just watching the ocean when I asked for his photo: After I snapped his picture with an old film camera (not that old &#8211; a 90&#8217;s era Ricoh) he followed us around from a distance as we spent the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86,17,87,4,9],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","tag-black-and-white","tag-chennai","tag-elliot-beach","tag-india","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}