{"id":279,"date":"2015-11-11T03:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:22:08","slug":"stranger-no-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/11\/stranger-no-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14981838948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14981838948_936732ec71_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another no-name stranger. I was at the beach in Chennai, during Ganesha Chaturthi, a festival in which idols of Lord Ganesh are immersed in the sea, and this guy was hanging around, looking for a few rupees to buy some tea. I asked to take a few pictures and he immediately went into this posing mode where he kept insisting I take more pictures, each time with a new pose. It was somewhat difficult to extract myself from the situation, with local police and onlookers laughing at my predicament.<\/p>\n<p>I did give him some rupees for a few cups of tea for his trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14981839028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14981839028_f9fcb387f5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15165421891\" title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15165421891_2362a0a102_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15145385946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15145385946_7b960cc6a7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another no-name stranger. I was at the beach in Chennai, during Ganesha Chaturthi, a festival in which idols of Lord Ganesh are immersed in the sea, and this guy was hanging around, looking for a few rupees to buy some tea. I asked to take a few pictures and he immediately went into this posing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3,17,4,9],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-chennai","tag-india","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}