{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"How growing up in rural Alabama shaped this author and dancer","publication_date":"July 18, 2019","summary":"In his youth, Brontez Purnell's church in Triana, Alabama, didn\u2019t have a microphone, so the solos went to whoever could project their voice the loudest. That lesson of projection has stayed with him. \"I carry a sense of projection in everything, even with the writing,\" he said, \"the words have to leap off the page.\"","author_name":"By Lisa Cordes, Alabama Public Television","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2019\/07\/36A0338_web-1024x683.jpg","thumbnail_height":683,"thumbnail_width":1024}