{"id":10736,"date":"2015-11-10T22:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=152"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:42","slug":"stranger-no-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10736","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Abdul Jabbar by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/12718772044\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abdul Jabbar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12718772044_7933dc60ba_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To those of us who have lived in colder climes, it always seems odd to think that people in Chennai are ever cold. But it&#8217;s quite common to see people covering their ears, especially, during these &#8220;cold&#8221; months, when the temperature rarely drops below 70 Fahrenheit. People can be seen wearing thin earmuffs, thick wool caps, and ear coverings like these. I ran into Abdul Jabbar at the flower market in the part of town called &#8220;Parry&#8217;s&#8221; &#8211; northerly in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those of us who have lived in colder climes, it always seems odd to think that people in Chennai are ever cold. But it&#8217;s quite common to see people covering their ears, especially, during these &#8220;cold&#8221; months, when the temperature rarely drops below 70 Fahrenheit. People can be seen wearing thin earmuffs, thick wool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10493,"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":[943,2232,1250,2253],"class_list":["post-10736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-chennai","tag-earmuffs","tag-flower-market","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12718772044_7933dc60ba_m.jpg?fit=159%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736","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=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10920,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions\/10920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}