{"id":73,"date":"2015-11-10T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:31:00","slug":"stranger-no-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/10\/stranger-no-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11153735674\/\" title=\"Suranja by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11153735674_85308e6d93_c.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Suranja\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We met Suranja at the Kanchi Kamakshi Amman temple in Kanchipuram, also known as the &#8220;city of 1000 temples.&#8221;  She explained that she is a widower, and she makes her money by giving tourists puffed rice to throw in the temple tank and other places outside, which brings blessings and luck &#8211; in exchange for a small donation.  She was such a sweet lady we didn&#8217;t mind being &#8220;panhandled.&#8221;  I think we got blessings for all of our kids, parents, aunts uncles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met Suranja at the Kanchi Kamakshi Amman temple in Kanchipuram, also known as the &#8220;city of 1000 temples.&#8221; She explained that she is a widower, and she makes her money by giving tourists puffed rice to throw in the temple tank and other places outside, which brings blessings and luck &#8211; in exchange for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3,31,9,30,21],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women","tag-100-strangers","tag-kanchipuram","tag-portrait","tag-temple","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}