{"id":2000,"date":"2009-08-09T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T07:21:15","slug":"kids-in-badami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/kids-in-badami.html","title":{"rendered":"Kids in Badami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children hardly differ from one tourist town to other. &#8216;One photo,&#8217; is a popular phrase with Badami&#8217;s kids too. They are delighted to see a stranger with a backpack. They come running, raise a finger and repeat those well worn words with great delight. When I get one such request, I smile at them and move on if I am in a hurry to get somewhere. But if I have time in my hands, I pause for a quick chatter, take a picture and show it to them. It makes then dance with delight and makes me feel good. But I have to move on before their friends, and friends&#8217; friends come along and build an army around me.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Muneer shouted &#8216;one photo&#8217; when I was passing by. I don&#8217;t think he thought his request will be obliged. He was a bit stunned, and never spoke a word. Even his name, I learned from another guy who was standing nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2001\" title=\"badami kids\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_3.jpg\" alt=\"badami kids\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2002\" title=\"badami\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_2.jpg\" alt=\"badami\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_2.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was trying to frame this goat below, and the girl insisted that she be part of the frame. I obliged. The boy in the next picture got added to the frame in the same way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2003\" title=\"badami\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_4.jpg\" alt=\"badami\" width=\"520\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_4.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_4-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2004\" title=\"badami\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_5.jpg\" alt=\"badami\" width=\"520\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_5.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_5-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These kids were escorted by the lady, probably their teacher. Everyone jumped in for &#8216;one photo&#8217;, the lady had to push them forward and make them stay on course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2005\" title=\"badami\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_men_6.jpg\" alt=\"badami\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_men_6.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_men_6-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2006\" title=\"badami\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_7.jpg\" alt=\"badami\" width=\"520\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_7.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_7-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These kids were conscious of the camera. I used the live-view on lcd to shoot, and talked to them simultaneously to put them at east.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2008\" title=\"badami\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_1.jpg\" alt=\"badami\" width=\"520\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_1.jpg 520w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/badami_kids_1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children hardly differ from one tourist town to other. &#8216;One photo,&#8217; is a popular phrase with Badami&#8217;s kids too. They are delighted to see a stranger with a backpack. They come running, raise a finger and repeat those well worn words with great delight. When I get one such request, I smile at them and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112,1],"tags":[155,544],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-essay","category-uncategorized","tag-badami","tag-photo-essay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-wg","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}