{"id":25868,"date":"2025-10-21T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=25868"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:16:12","slug":"happy-birthday-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2025\/10\/happy-birthday-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Dad!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been my dad&#8217;s 88th birthday.\u00a0 When @Adobe asked me several weeks ago to Q today, I jumped at the chance to honor my hero dad on his birthday.\u00a0 At the time I didn&#8217;t know that @Superfly was also going to plan his dad&#8217;s 92nd birthday celebration at Parliament two weeks ago.\u00a0 Fortunately, his dad was in the army and apparently loved burpees, whereas my dad was in the navy and detested burpees so we could celebrate in an entirely different way to day than we did two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm-O-Rama<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>10\u00a0<\/strong>Toy Soldiers IC<\/li>\n<li><strong>21\u00a0<\/strong>Imperial Walkers IC<\/li>\n<li><strong>19<\/strong> Hillbillies IC<\/li>\n<li><strong>37<\/strong> SSH IC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Dad was born on October 21, 1937]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>6\u00a0<\/strong>Abe Vigoda IC<\/li>\n<li><strong>3\u00a0<\/strong>Whirly&#8217;s Got The Clap IC<\/li>\n<li><strong>20\u00a0<\/strong>Copperhead Squats IC<\/li>\n<li><strong>21<\/strong> Copperhead Merkins IC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Dad died on June 3, 2021]<\/p>\n<p>Go fetch a cinder block<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thang Part 1:\u00a0 James Thomas Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pax take turns carrying the heavy sand bag to the end of the bus line cover and back to serve as the timer while remaining pax perform AMRAP of called exercise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>J<\/strong>ump Squats<\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>merican Hammers<\/li>\n<li><strong>M<\/strong>erkins<\/li>\n<li><strong>E<\/strong>lbow Plank Jacks<\/li>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong>wings<\/li>\n<li><strong>T<\/strong>hrusters<\/li>\n<li><strong>H<\/strong>eels to Heaven<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>verhead Press<\/li>\n<li><strong>M<\/strong>owers<\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>labama Prom Dates<\/li>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong>kull Crushers<\/li>\n<li><strong>D<\/strong>erkins<\/li>\n<li><strong>I<\/strong>rkins<\/li>\n<li><strong>X<\/strong>tra Slow Curls<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>blique Crunches<\/li>\n<li><strong>N<\/strong>olan Ryans<\/li>\n<li>Bonus round:\u00a0 Pax choose their favorite letter (mainly so everybody got to serve 2 rounds as the timer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Thang Part 2:\u00a0 Interlude to Blow Out The Candles on The Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head over to benches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>22 Right Leg Step Ups OYO<\/li>\n<li>22 Left Leg Step Ups OYO<\/li>\n<li>22 Dips OYO<\/li>\n<li>22 Irkins OYO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[88 total reps since it&#8217;s Dad&#8217;s 88th birthday]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Thang Part 3:\u00a0 James Thomas Dixon (Reprise)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Repeato until all pax have served 1 more round as the timer.<\/p>\n<p>Return cinder blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Plank-o-rama for the six.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COT\/BOM:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>YHC took us out<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No running.\u00a0 No burpees.\u00a0 Still got a bunch of work in and got all 3 Fs in, too.<\/p>\n<p>Great group this morning.\u00a0 Good to see @BlindDate coming back after a stint on the IR.\u00a0 @Ziggy was a big fan of &#8220;Convoy&#8221;.\u00a0 @Adobe liked the whole playlist, even the show tunes.\u00a0 @Boomerang got extra credit by returning the heavy bag to my car after the workout.\u00a0 @Ziffel suggested partner assisted prom dates but @Subfloor said that he was more of a pickle pounder.\u00a0 @FrankAndBeans offered counseling given my obviously questionable and eclectic playlist choices.\u00a0 Speaking of the playlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[He was born in Oklahoma City, OK]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oklahoma&#8221; (2019 Broadway Cast Recording)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Boomer Sooner (The Pride of Oklahoma)<\/li>\n<li>[He joined the navy fresh out of high school at age 17]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In The Navy&#8221; (Village People)<\/li>\n<li>[He loooved Jim Croce&#8230;.soundtrack of my childhood on family road trips]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Bad, Bad Leroy Brown&#8221; (Jim Croce)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You Don&#8217;t Mess Around With Jim&#8221; (Jim Croce)<\/li>\n<li>[He also loved Stevie Wonder]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Superstition&#8221; (Stevie Wonder)<\/li>\n<li>[He worked for Ryder Truck Rental from 1962-1986]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Convoy&#8221; (C.W. McCall)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Truckin'&#8221; (Grateful Dead)<\/li>\n<li>[He\/we moved to Miami in 1980]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rhythm Is Gonna Get You&#8221; (Miami Sound Machine)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Margaritaville&#8221; (Jimmy Buffett)<\/li>\n<li>[He moved back to his hometown as I came to Wake Forest in 1986 and lived there until he died in 2021]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;7&amp;7&#8221; (Turnpike Troubadours)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Am Not Afraid&#8221; (Charley Crockett)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: JTD&amp;apos;s Birthday at Parliament\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/3NQlqmwZpESUyrR8Z6jdKg?si=d8f0c20daf6d4dcc&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for letting me honor my dad this morning and for being there for me every day.<\/p>\n<p>Your friend,<\/p>\n<p>Starfish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been my dad&#8217;s 88th birthday.\u00a0 When @Adobe asked me several weeks ago to Q today, I jumped at the chance to honor my hero dad on his birthday.\u00a0 At the time I didn&#8217;t know that @Superfly was also going to plan his dad&#8217;s 92nd birthday celebration at Parliament two weeks ago.\u00a0 Fortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parliament"],"acf":{"q":"Starfish","date":"10\/21\/2025","pax":"Subfloor, Blind Date (WB), Ziffel, Ziggy Stardust (WD?), Superfly, Boomerang, Adobe, Frank and Beans, Starfish (QIC)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25869,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25868\/revisions\/25869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}