{"id":74689,"date":"2025-10-11T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/11\/malala-yousafzai-growing-up-getting-cynical-how-getting-high-nearly-broke-her"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:00:15","slug":"to-the-men-who-ran-the-world-i-was-just-a-photo-op-malala-yousafzai-on-growing-up-getting-cynical-and-how-getting-high-nearly-broke-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74689","title":{"rendered":"\u2018To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op\u2019: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical \u2013 and how getting high nearly broke her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global icon of women\u2019s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with her<\/p>\n<p>I am at the shed where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai smoked her first bong. No, there\u2019s no punchline \u2013 it\u2019s not that kind of anecdote. \u201cMy life has changed for ever,\u201d Yousafzai says sadly, as we gaze at the semi-derelict structure. \u201cEverything changed for ever, after that [night].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shed is tucked away at the back of Lady Margaret Hall, away from the prying eyes of Oxford\u2019s college life. You have to know how to find it. Yousafzai leads me through quadrangles and out into a hidden garden. Inside are dusty pint glasses and spiderwebs, and board games with the pieces missing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/11\/malala-yousafzai-growing-up-getting-cynical-how-getting-high-nearly-broke-her\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global icon of women\u2019s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with herI am at the shed where Nobel laureate Malala Y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,46,615,2302,60,79,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-malala-yousafzai","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74689\/revisions\/74705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}