diff --git a/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/tags.rb b/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/tags.rb
index 062261d..ed19e70 100644
--- a/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/tags.rb
+++ b/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/tags.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ class Tags
 
       attr_accessor :tag_list
       attr_accessor :options
-      delegate :join, :map, :each, :inspect, :==, :===, :eql?, :__bson_dump__, :delete, :&, :to_ary, :to_json, to: :tag_list
+      delegate :join, :map, :each, :inspect, :==, :===, :eql?, :__bson_dump__, :delete, :&, :to_ary, :to_json, :as_json, to: :tag_list
 
       def initialize(*tag_list, options)
         self.options = {separator: Mongoid::TagsArentHard.config.separator}.merge(options)
diff --git a/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/version.rb b/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/version.rb
index 3a589d3..b2b9022 100644
--- a/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mongoid/tags_arent_hard/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module Mongoid
   module Tags
     module Arent
       module Hard
-        VERSION = "1.0.2"
+        VERSION = "1.0.3"
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/spec/tags_arent_hard/tags_spec.rb b/spec/tags_arent_hard/tags_spec.rb
index 8bf12ae..3345735 100644
--- a/spec/tags_arent_hard/tags_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/tags_arent_hard/tags_spec.rb
@@ -71,4 +71,12 @@
 
   end
 
+  describe 'as_json' do
+    
+    it "returns the underlying array" do
+      tags.as_json.should eql(["foo", "bar", "baz"])
+    end
+
+  end
+
 end
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