{"id":10698,"date":"2015-11-10T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:02:07","slug":"stranger-no-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11153735674\/\" title=\"Suranja by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11153735674_85308e6d93_c-1.jpg?resize=534%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" 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":{"_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":[2211,2215],"tags":[2216,1139,2253,944,2266],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-women","tag-100-strangers","tag-kanchipuram","tag-portrait","tag-temple","tag-woman"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11153735674_85308e6d93_z.jpg?fit=427%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","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=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}