{"id":841613,"date":"2026-08-02T03:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:17:14","slug":"roughriders-elks-cfl-game-resumes-after-81-minute-lightning-delay-620-ckrm-the-voice-of-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841613\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughriders-Elks CFL game resumes after 81-minute lightning delay | 620 CKRM &#8211; The Voice of Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"<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":"EDMONTON \u2013 The second half of the CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Elks was delayed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[224145,224143,49,48,224144,4398,224142,23752,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,4403],"class_list":["post-841613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-100-year-celebration","tag-620-ckrm","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ckrm","tag-country-music","tag-countrys-greatest-hits","tag-edmonton","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841613","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=841613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}