<<If parent settings is set to true, this field doesn’t save any data. Instead, it sets the selected post as the parent for the current being edited post.>>
If the setting parent is set to true, the field supports saving the post parent for the post object and does not save the post meta (even with the default table wp_postmeta).
Please read more here https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_post/
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