{"id":15206872,"date":"2026-07-12T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/letters-unless-elks-support-improves-edmonton-in-danger-of-losing-pro-football\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:33:47","slug":"letters-unless-elks-support-improves-edmonton-in-danger-of-losing-pro-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/letters-unless-elks-support-improves-edmonton-in-danger-of-losing-pro-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Unless Elks support improves, Edmonton in danger of losing pro football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embarrassing support for Edmonton Football: What great entertainment at Commonweath Thursday night. The green and gold are very good this year and have the best RB in the league. This franchise has given us many years of championships. Forget the name issue, this is green and gold the oldest sport franchise in Edmonton. Thursday night was one of the worst-attended games. You can say goodbye to professional football in Edmonton in two years if attendance does not pick up. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Edmonton Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POOR TURNOUT Embarrassing support for Edmonton Football: What great entertainment at Commonweath Thursday night. The green and gold are very good this year and have the best RB in the league. This franchise has given us many years of championships.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15206874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15206872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edmonton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699.webp",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-300x225.webp",300,225,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-620x465.webp",620,465,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-768x576.webp",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-940x705.webp",940,705,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699.webp",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699.webp",1200,900,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-998x665.webp",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-670x446.webp",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-1200x894.webp",1200,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-510x510.webp",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-160x160.webp",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-24x24.webp",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-48x48.webp",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-96x96.webp",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15206872-but_7972.ej_304208699-300x300.webp",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"Edmonton<\/a>","tag_info":"Edmonton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15206872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15206873,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206872\/revisions\/15206873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15206874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15206872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15206872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15206872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}