{"id":255627,"date":"2025-11-02T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255627\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:32:07","slug":"lions-hold-off-stampeders-to-win-west-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255627\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions hold off Stampeders to win West semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t easy, but the B.C. Lions are headed to the West final. <\/p>\n<p>The Lions held off a second-half charge from the visiting Calgary Stampeders to win 33-30 in the West semifinal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not putting up big numbers, MOP finalist Nathan Rourke led the Lions to the game-winning field goal with under 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The Lions move on to take on the No. 1-seeded Saskatchewan Roughriders in the West final next Saturday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t easy, but the B.C. Lions are headed to the West final. The Lions held off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-255627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}