{"id":416564,"date":"2026-07-29T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:20:08","slug":"more-local-restaurants-closed-because-of-vermin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416564\/","title":{"rendered":"More Local Restaurants Closed Because Of &#8216;Vermin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego County restaurants are being shut down by health inspectors at a much higher rate. <\/p>\n<p>The Times of San Diego reports 524 restaurants were temporarily closed in 2025, nearly double the number from four years earlier, with vermin infestations accounting for more than 84-percent of the closures. <\/p>\n<p>Health inspectors say restaurants are shut down for major violations such as rodents, insects, sewage issues and other sanitation hazards. <\/p>\n<p>Experts say climate change, changes in rodent control methods and sanitation challenges may all be contributing to the increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego County restaurants are being shut down by health inspectors at a much higher rate. The Times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[412,74,76,75,159995],"class_list":["post-416564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-restaurants","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-vermin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}