{"quotes":[{"text":"I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds.","author":"Rachel Cohn","tags":["cupcake","cyd-charisse","drugs","gingerbread","high","humour","leg-injury","medication","oscar-the-grouch","painkillers","pills","rachel-cohn","sesame-street","shrimp"],"id":152194,"author_id":"Rachel+Cohn"},{"text":"The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That’s when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["christmas","gingerbread","gingerbread-house","holiday","holidays","house","room","stories","storyteller","storytelling","tradition","traditional","traditions","wonder"],"id":286799,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Have a drink, Coughffles.” “Stop it with the names!” I laughed and coughed.","author":"Shaye Evans","tags":["christmas","christmas-wishes","gay-romance","gingerbread","mm-romance","shaye-evans"],"id":314304,"author_id":"Shaye+Evans"},{"text":"Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["dance","gingerbread","jim-crow"],"id":331468,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"That Jim Crow there in the window,' answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; 'the one that has not a broken foot.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["gingerbread","humor","irony","jim-crow"],"id":400920,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}