{"id":908,"date":"2006-08-23T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/908"},"modified":"2006-08-23T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T05:48:00","slug":"the-french-vada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/the-french-vada\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Vada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What do you call a Vada in French?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Le Vada&#8221; (pronounced &#8216;la &#8211; vada&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mr.Dickens<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<map name=\"google_ad_map_061219083702060823051800\">\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/061219083702060823051800?pos=0\" coords=\"1,2,367,28\"\/>\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg\" coords=\"384,10,453,23\"\/><\/map>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" usemap=\"#google_ad_map_061219083702060823051800\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1259014363012020&amp;channel=9138153052&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=061219083702060823051800&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fyakpad10.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F08%2Ffrench-vada.html\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What do you call a Vada in French?&#8221;&#8220;Le Vada&#8221; (pronounced &#8216;la &#8211; vada&#8217;) Source: Mr.Dickens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&#8220;What do you call a Vada in French?&#8221;&#8220;Le Vada&#8221; (pronounced &#8216;la &#8211; vada&#8217;) Source: Mr.Dickens","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gbk8-eE","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":212,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/medu-vada-fry-by-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":908,"position":0},"title":"Medu Vada: Fry by Design","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"April 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"My friend -who is from Delhi- and I were talking about South-Indian food and we came on to the topic of Medu Vada... the Vada with a hole. 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