---
title: Context
description: >-
  Represents the tree around a given status. Used for reconstructing threads of
  statuses.
menu:
  docs:
    parent: entities
---

## Example

{{< code title="Truncated response from GET statuses/:id/context" >}}
```javascript
{
  "ancestors": [
    {
      "id": "103188938570975982",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T19:44:00.124Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": null,
      ...
    },
    {
      "id": "103188971072973252",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T19:52:23.398Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": "103188938570975982",
      ...
    },
    {
      "id": "103188982235527758",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T19:55:08.208Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": "103188971072973252",
      ...
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "id": "103189026958574542",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T20:06:36.011Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": "103189005915505698",
      ...
    }
  ]
}
```
{{< /code >}}

## Required attributes

### `ancestors`

**Description:** Parents in the thread.
**Type:** Array of [Status](status.md)
**Version history:** Added in 0.6.0

### `descendants`

**Description:** Children in the thread.
**Type:** Array of [Status](status.md)
**Version history:** Added in 0.6.0

## See also

* [GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/context](../methods/statuses/#parent-and-child-statuses)

{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/app/serializers/rest/context_serializer.rb" caption="app/serializers/rest/context\_serializer.rb" >}}