{"id":56,"date":"2015-11-10T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=56"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:31:04","slug":"strangers-nos-14-and-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/10\/strangers-nos-14-and-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers Nos. 14 and 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Arais and Verappam by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11026102786\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11026102786_1ed49559d0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Arais and Verappam\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arais and Veerrappam were sitting exactly as you see them here, as I walked by with my camera, and thought it was the perfect photo. \u00a0It was about 0830 am on a Sunday, and I assume this is their shop they are sitting in front of, getting ready to open. \u00a0We had a brief chat with the help of a translator, and then they were gracious enough to pose for another photo, standing. \u00a0They strike me as a very happy couple. Don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arais and Verappam by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11026142934\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11026142934_9229b1f1ff_b.jpg\" alt=\"Arais and Verappam\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE Feb 23, 2014<\/p>\n<p>I stopped by Verappam&#8217;s place this weekend to bring him a copy of the photos above. These are some photos of his reaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0499-1024x682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0499-1024x682-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0499-1024x682\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0499-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0499-1024x682-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0501-1024x682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0501-1024x682-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0501-1024x682\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0501-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0501-1024x682-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arais and Veerrappam were sitting exactly as you see them here, as I walked by with my camera, and thought it was the perfect photo. \u00a0It was about 0830 am on a Sunday, and I assume this is their shop they are sitting in front of, getting ready to open. \u00a0We had a brief chat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[3,25,4,8,9,24],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","category-women","tag-100-strangers","tag-couple","tag-india","tag-men","tag-portrait","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}