How to edit a post meta data in a Gutenberg Block?

Think I found the answer here. The first argument to register_meta is not post type but object_type, which is in my case should be post rather than taxonomy or comment. The function description, found here, states as of WordPress 4.9.2 the correct parameter is post. Once I switched it everything worked.

register_meta('post', 'event_location', [
    'show_in_rest' => true,
    'single' => true,
    'type' => 'string'
]);

Also, here is a Github issue related to the same problem.

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