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HTML

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.4.4/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script type="application/json" id="JSON">
    [
        {
            "items": [
                {
                    "id": 6745,
                    "name": "sint officia",
                    "description": "veniam ut nulla qui ea"
                },
                {
                    "id": 7896,
                    "name": "voluptate ullamco",
                    "description": "commodo eu commodo officia ex"
                }
            ],
            "parentId": 1710,
            "title": "asdf s dsf sad fasdaffe",
            "type": "enim et"
        },
        {
            "items": [
                {
                    "id": 5729,
                    "name": "duis est",
                    "description": "quis officia ad non excepteur"
                },
                {
                    "id": 7881,
                    "name": "ad adipisicing",
                    "description": "laboris consectetur minim exercitation id"
                },
                {
                    "id": 9554,
                    "name": "enim aute",
                    "description": "in dolore do aute laborum"
                }
            ],
            "parentId": 7992,
            "title": "",
            "type": "laboris ea"
        },
        {
            "items": [
                {
                    "id": 5866,
                    "name": "nulla ea",
                    "description": "voluptate mollit occaecat excepteur Lorem"
                },
                {
                    "id": 2787,
                    "name": "incididunt nisi",
                    "description": "fugiat eu fugiat aliqua incididunt"
                },
                {
                    "id": 2186,
                    "name": "incididunt cillum",
                    "description": "elit aliquip cupidatat irure eu"
                }
            ],
            "parentId": 133,
 ...

JavaScript

var data = JSON.parse($('#JSON').html());

var parentIdToLookUp = 1710;

var foundObject = _(data).findWhere({parentId: parentIdToLookUp});

console.log(foundObject);