{"id":10693,"date":"2015-11-10T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=56"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:02:07","slug":"strangers-nos-14-and-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10693","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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11026102786_1ed49559d0_z-1.jpg?resize=640%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11026142934_9229b1f1ff_b-1.jpg?resize=660%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" 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=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0499-1024x682-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0499-1024x682-1024x682.jpg?resize=1024%2C682\" alt=\"DSC_0499-1024x682\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0501-1024x682-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0501-1024x682-1024x682.jpg?resize=1024%2C682\" alt=\"DSC_0501-1024x682\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/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":10463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2211,2214,2215],"tags":[2216,2227,836,2247,2253,2267],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","category-women","tag-100-strangers","tag-couple","tag-india","tag-men","tag-portrait","tag-women"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11026142934_9229b1f1ff_z.jpg?fit=413%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10947,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions\/10947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}