{"id":10788,"date":"2015-11-11T03:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:40","slug":"stranger-no-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10788","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14776998713\" title=\"Murali by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14776998713_8102182587_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Murali\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was finishing up a photowalk when I spotted this small shop, and on the chair behind this fellow, another guy was sitting staring stoically to the left.  It was him I approached for a photo, and in response he jumped up and hid behind the doorway, refusing to be photographed.  This guy, named Murali, is the shopkeeper, who thought I wanted to photograph his shop (I did, but only as a frame).  So I asked him instead, and requested he pose by leaning against his doorway as seen here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14753955261\" title=\"Murali by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14753955261_ca248ee179_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Murali\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was finishing up a photowalk when I spotted this small shop, and on the chair behind this fellow, another guy was sitting staring stoically to the left. It was him I approached for a photo, and in response he jumped up and hid behind the doorway, refusing to be photographed. This guy, named Murali, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10522,"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":[2216,2253,2257],"class_list":["post-10788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-portrait","tag-shopkeeper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14753955261_ca248ee179_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\/10788","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=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10889,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions\/10889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}