diff --git a/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md b/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md
index 0b8f3a01c1ac..77fab0d2df53 100644
--- a/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md
+++ b/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ allow for more complex expressions (e.g. concatenating arrays or decoding JSON
 strings into objects).
 ```river
 env("HOME")
-json_decode(local.file.cfg.contents)["namespace"]
+json_decode(local.file.cfg.content)["namespace"]
 ```
 
 [standard library]: {{< relref "../../reference/stdlib" >}}