{"id":279,"date":"2015-11-11T03:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=279"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:40","slug":"stranger-no-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14981838948\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14981838948_936732ec71_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another no-name stranger. I was at the beach in Chennai, during Ganesha Chaturthi, a festival in which idols of Lord Ganesh are immersed in the sea, and this guy was hanging around, looking for a few rupees to buy some tea. I asked to take a few pictures and he immediately went into this posing mode where he kept insisting I take more pictures, each time with a new pose. It was somewhat difficult to extract myself from the situation, with local police and onlookers laughing at my predicament.<\/p>\n<p>I did give him some rupees for a few cups of tea for his trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14981839028\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14981839028_f9fcb387f5_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15165421891\" title=\"Stranger No. 93 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\/15165421891_2362a0a102_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stranger No. 93 by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15145385946\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15145385946_7b960cc6a7_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stranger No. 93\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another no-name stranger. I was at the beach in Chennai, during Ganesha Chaturthi, a festival in which idols of Lord Ganesh are immersed in the sea, and this guy was hanging around, looking for a few rupees to buy some tea. I asked to take a few pictures and he immediately went into this posing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10531,"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":[2216,943,836,2253],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-chennai","tag-india","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14981839028_f9fcb387f5_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\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}