{"id":10741,"date":"2015-11-10T23:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=161"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:41","slug":"stranger-no-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10741","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bala Subramanian by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/12718233643\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bala Subramanian\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12718233643_dc616d55c0_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo of Bala, stranger number 51. He&#8217;s on his cell phone, but I &#8220;asked&#8221; him for a photo using hand gestures and we talked only elsewhere. He sells flowers at the flower market near Parry&#8217;s Corner, in north-central Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo of Bala, stranger number 51. He&#8217;s on his cell phone, but I &#8220;asked&#8221; him for a photo using hand gestures and we talked only elsewhere. He sells flowers at the flower market near Parry&#8217;s Corner, in north-central Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10496,"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":[2216,2224,667,836,2248,2259],"class_list":["post-10741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-cell-phone","tag-flower","tag-india","tag-merchant","tag-stranger"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12718233643_dc616d55c0_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\/10741","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=10741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}