Node+ElasticSearch: Sending a body on a GET request?

I am using Node.js and the request module to create a backend, and we've chose Elasticsearch as our data storage. All fine so far, except it seems Node doesn't support request bodies on GET requests? This is necessary for Elasticsearch's _search API, which expects only GET requests as part of their semantic design. Is there a solution to force Node to send the request body even in the cases of a GET request, or a mean to use _search on Elasticsearch with another HTTP verb?

function elasticGet(url, data) {
    data = data || {};
    return Q.nfcall(request.get, {
        uri: url,
        body: JSON.stringify(data) //<-- noop
    }).then(function(response) {
        return JSON.parse(response[1]);
    }, function(err) {
        console.log(err);
    });
}

The _search API also accepts the POST verb.