diff --git a/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md b/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md
index 311d1892b382..2a8da9dbacd5 100644
--- a/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md
+++ b/docs/sources/flow/config-language/expressions/function_calls.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ 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" >}}