# Update parent(\_parent) from JSON rather than query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-parent--parent-from-json-rather-than-query/19703
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 10, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-parent--parent-from-json-rather-than-query/19703 "2014-09-10T08:52:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Santosh\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Santosh_B)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-parent--parent-from-json-rather-than-query/19703/1 "2014-09-10T08:52:21Z")
usually parent field is updated using
POST /dsdemo/content/child11787?parent=parent1
{
"title": "The 111 document",
"body": "This 111 could be huge #14"
}
instead of this can we try to update parent like this
POST /dsdemo/content/child11787
{
"title": "The 111 document",
"body": "This 111 could be huge #14",
"parent":"parent1"
}
or may be
POST /dsdemo/content/child11787
{
"title": "The 111 document",
"body": "This 111 could be huge #14",
"\_parent":"parent1"
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-parent--parent-from-json-rather-than-query/19703/2 "2017-07-06T01:03:28Z")