index status produces 400 error

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index = es_client.get_index('myindex')
status = index.status.data

produces the output of

{
    "status": 400,
    "error": {
        "root_cause": [{
            "reason": "No feature for name [_status]",
            "type": "illegal_argument_exception"
        }],
        "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
        "reason": "No feature for name [_status]"
    }
}

According to answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32661598/elasticsearch-after-install-plugin-elasticsearch-head it's because _status is deprecated, replaced by _recovery

ElasticSearch version: 2.3.2