{"id":298,"date":"2015-11-11T03:54:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=298"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:39","slug":"stranger-no-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/15737719862\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15737719862_19fbfdb0a1_b.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Ramki\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the last month or so, Ramki has been on a roll of film that has been waiting to be developed. &nbsp;Ramki is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sadhu\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;sadhu&#8221;<\/a> or Hindu holy man whom I walked by in Varanasi, India (where there are many sadhus!) &nbsp;I stopped and asked for his photo, and he gave a sigh (presumably tourists often ask for his photo) and answered &#8220;give me a little money&#8221;. &nbsp;So this is how he became Stranger No. 100, exactly 363 days after I posted Stranger No. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last month or so, Ramki has been on a roll of film that has been waiting to be developed. &nbsp;Ramki is a &#8220;sadhu&#8221; or Hindu holy man whom I walked by in Varanasi, India (where there are many sadhus!) &nbsp;I stopped and asked for his photo, and he gave a sigh (presumably tourists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10535,"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":[2216,2241,2253,1457],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-100-strangers","tag-holy-man","tag-portrait","tag-varanasi"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/15737719862_19fbfdb0a1_m.jpg?fit=151%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}