{"id":282,"date":"2015-11-11T03:44:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:40","slug":"stranger-no-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Raul by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15241378688\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15241378688_e01c67edae_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Raul\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Raul &#8211; we were walking along the ghats of Varanasi and he made some small talk with us in an effort to try and lure us to his silk shop. We didn&#8217;t fall for it of course, but I did ask him if he would pose for this portrait.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Raul by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15241430597\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15241430597_791487817c_c.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Raul\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Raul &#8211; we were walking along the ghats of Varanasi and he made some small talk with us in an effort to try and lure us to his silk shop. We didn&#8217;t fall for it of course, but I did ask him if he would pose for this portrait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10532,"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":[836,2253,2258,1457],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-india","tag-portrait","tag-silk-shop-owner","tag-varanasi"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15241378688_e01c67edae_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\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}