{"id":58506,"date":"2025-07-14T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/downtown-san-jose-nightclubs-operating-without-permits\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:30:16","slug":"downtown-san-jose-nightclubs-operating-without-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/downtown-san-jose-nightclubs-operating-without-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown San Jose nightclubs operating without permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown nightlife venues with ties to San Jose\u2019s political elite have flouted city regulations by staying open past midnight without permits for more than a year \u2014 incensing other nightclub owners who pay steep to play by the rules. San Pedro Social and Kaizen Lounge in downtown San Jose have operated without conditional use permits \u2014 despite hosting large, drunken crowds past midnight \u2014 since they opened in March 2022 and September 2024, respectively. Both businesses also lack police-issued entertainment permits required of venues that sell alcohol, according to records obtained by this news organization. San Pedro Social is part&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/downtown-san-jose-nightclubs-operating-without-permits\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown nightlife venues with ties to San Jose\u2019s political elite have flouted city regulations by staying open past midnight without permits for more than a year \u2014 incensing other nightclub owners who pay steep to play by the rules. San Pedro Social and Kaizen Lounge in downtown San Jose have operated without conditional use permits &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}