{"id":841553,"date":"2026-08-02T02:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841553\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:29:56","slug":"roughriders-elks-cfl-game-resumes-after-81-minute-lightning-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841553\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughriders-Elks CFL game resumes after 81-minute lightning delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second half of the CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Elks has been delayed due to lightning in the vicinity of Commonwealth Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2013 The second half of the CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Elks was delayed 81\u00a0minutes due to lightning in the vicinity of Commonwealth Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning strikes were visible in the Edmonton sky at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The teams returned to the field at 7:30 Mountain\/Saskatchewan time for a 10-minute warmup. The game resumed at 7:40.<\/p>\n<p>The Riders led the Elks 14-13 at the break. Quarterback Tommy Stevens had\u00a0both touchdowns for the visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second half of the CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Elks has been delayed due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-841553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841553","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=841553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}