{"id":10695,"date":"2015-11-10T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=67"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:02:07","slug":"stranger-no-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10695","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Murgan by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11025902036\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025902036_9369cf7bc1_c-1.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Murgan\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Murgan. Technically, he shouldn&#8217;t be a part of this project as he is one of the many people who asked\u00a0<em>me<\/em> to take\u00a0<em>his\u00a0<\/em>photo, rather than the other way around. \u00a0The idea of the project is to approach strangers and ask them to shoot their portrait. \u00a0But I thought it was such a great photo. \u00a0He insisted I take a photo of him casually leaning his arm on the motorcycle, with this expression. \u00a0After I snapped the photo, I asked him if it was his motorcycle, and he shook his head &#8211; he had no idea whose motorcycle it was. \u00a0But it&#8217;s still a cool photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Murgan. Technically, he shouldn&#8217;t be a part of this project as he is one of the many people who asked\u00a0me to take\u00a0his\u00a0photo, rather than the other way around. \u00a0The idea of the project is to approach strangers and ask them to shoot their portrait. \u00a0But I thought it was such a great photo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10468,"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],"tags":[2247,2152,2253,2259],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-men","tag-motorcycle","tag-portrait","tag-stranger"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11025902036_9369cf7bc1_z.jpg?fit=425%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","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=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}