json: Update references to RFC 7159 to RFC 8259

RFC 8259 (December 2017) obsoletes RFC 7159 (March 2014).

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180823164025.12553-59-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>