{"id":10743,"date":"2015-11-10T23:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=164"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:41","slug":"stranger-no-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10743","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Chandaran by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/12718103613\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chandaran\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12718103613_1eef0957df_c.jpg?resize=523%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"523\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chandaran is a Hindu priest working in a small temple near Parry&#8217;s Corner, in Chennai. My wife got a much better shot of him (in my opinion), which she has agreed to share:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0596-742x1024-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0596-742x1024-742x1024.jpg?resize=742%2C1024\" alt=\"DSC_0596-742x1024\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandaran is a Hindu priest working in a small temple near Parry&#8217;s Corner, in Chennai. My wife got a much better shot of him (in my opinion), which she has agreed to share:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10497,"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":[2216,943,972,2246,2253,2254],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-chennai","tag-hindu","tag-man","tag-portrait","tag-priest"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC_0596-742x1024-1.jpg?fit=742%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","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=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10916,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions\/10916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}