In order to get the post ancestors (also called parents) simply use the get_post_ancestors() function. This function takes a single argument which can be either the post ID or post object, and return the ancestors IDs as an array.
$ancestors = get_post_ancestors($post);
Thanks to Coen Jacobs for this great piece of code!
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How to easily get post ancestors