{"id":9943,"date":"2012-09-20T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:16:34","slug":"six-okies-on-forbes-list-of-richest-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/20\/six-okies-on-forbes-list-of-richest-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Okies on Forbes List of Richest Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Forbes 400 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes-400\/list\/\">list<\/a> of &#8220;The Richest People in America&#8221; includes six Oklahomans currently living in the state.<\/p><p>Half the wealthy Oklahomans made their money directly from the oil and natural gas industry; the other half are connected to large retail businesses.<\/p><p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0An-0uSFNZhY0dFJjUE80S1dINWdIcWpzQnNHUk9PLVE&#8221; source=&#8221;Forbes&#8221; filter=0 paginate=0 sortable=0]<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Oklahoma native T. Boone Pickens, who now lives in Texas, tied with several other Americans for the No. 360 spot with an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion from his connections to the oil and gas industry and other investments.<\/p><p>The list is absent two Okies, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/loves-owners-among-six-oklahomans-added-to-forbes-richest-americans-list\/article\/3711215?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oklahomans who fell off the list included Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., and Joseph Craft, CEO of Tulsa-based Alliance Resource Partners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forbes 400 list of &#8220;The Richest People in America&#8221; includes six Oklahomans currently living in the state.Half the wealthy Oklahomans made their money directly from the oil and natural gas industry; the other half are connected to large retail businesses.[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0An-0uSFNZhY0dFJjUE80S1dINWdIcWpzQnNHUk9PLVE&#8221; source=&#8221;Forbes&#8221; filter=0 paginate=0 sortable=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[271,457,456,324,357,455],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}