diff --git a/app/models/serializers/content_serializer.rb b/app/models/serializers/content_serializer.rb
index bddf3a06..3f43e655 100644
--- a/app/models/serializers/content_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/models/serializers/content_serializer.rb
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class ContentSerializer
       end
 
     when 'tags'
-      self.raw_model.page_tags
+      self.page_tags
 
     else # text_area, name, universe, etc
       #codesmell here: we shouldn't ever have multiple attribute values but for some reason we do sometimes (in collaboration?)