{"id":249,"date":"2015-11-11T03:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=249"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:22:09","slug":"stranger-no-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/11\/stranger-no-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14776998713\" title=\"Murali by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14776998713_8102182587_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Murali\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was finishing up a photowalk when I spotted this small shop, and on the chair behind this fellow, another guy was sitting staring stoically to the left.  It was him I approached for a photo, and in response he jumped up and hid behind the doorway, refusing to be photographed.  This guy, named Murali, is the shopkeeper, who thought I wanted to photograph his shop (I did, but only as a frame).  So I asked him instead, and requested he pose by leaning against his doorway as seen here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14753955261\" title=\"Murali by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14753955261_ca248ee179_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Murali\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was finishing up a photowalk when I spotted this small shop, and on the chair behind this fellow, another guy was sitting staring stoically to the left. It was him I approached for a photo, and in response he jumped up and hid behind the doorway, refusing to be photographed. This guy, named Murali, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3,9,46],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-portrait","tag-shopkeeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}