{"id":10772,"date":"2015-11-11T02:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=223"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:41","slug":"stranger-no-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10772","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rajendran by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14293011679\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14293011679_8a65b2fefe_z.jpg?resize=425%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rajendran\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rajendran seemed like the quiet type &#8211; he had a small cart outside the fruit market with half a dozen jackfruits on it, which he was painstakingly cutting into usable portions for sale. Apparently cutting these things into portions so that they can be eaten is quite a labor-intensive operation that takes some practice &#8211; I blog about it elsewhere at <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3118\" target=\"_blank\">tazmpictures.com<\/a> (see the video) &#8211; and Rajendran was intensely focused on the task, only pausing to look at the camera when I asked him to.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rajendran by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14476268301\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14476268301_06ef74fd95_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rajendran\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rajendran by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14293057648\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14293057648_5f6349f967_z.jpg?resize=425%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rajendran\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cutting Jack Fruit by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14293011879\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14293011879_ff995e6ca6_z-1.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cutting Jack Fruit\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajendran seemed like the quiet type &#8211; he had a small cart outside the fruit market with half a dozen jackfruits on it, which he was painstakingly cutting into usable portions for sale. Apparently cutting these things into portions so that they can be eaten is quite a labor-intensive operation that takes some practice &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10514,"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":[2216,836,1376,1346,2253,2265],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-india","tag-jackfruit","tag-koyambedu","tag-portrait","tag-vendor"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14293011679_8a65b2fefe_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\/10772","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=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}